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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by Insanity on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:08AM (#12682894)
Wouldn't want to be working in that division right now. I'm assuming they'll try to sprint asap to a follow-up or a replacement. The longer they wait, the more they lose to other vendors I am assuming. And the bad publicity must be causing quite a headache as well.

Nevertheless, their other phones have been good (and I'm assuming that apart from catching fire this one was as well, though catching fire is a pretty big downside).

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by ff10 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:10AM (#12682904)
Sprint to a replacement? To basically do the same mistake twice (or thrice if you will)? My bet is that they'll retreat and introduce the basic concept in/as another brand next year.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by yitchelle on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:29AM (#12682998)
Couldn't they replace the defective design from their other product lines? What is the actual root cause, battery or controlling electronics?
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by piyush_soni on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:49AM (#12683101)
Officially, no one knows, though there are theories. Samsung has said they are investigating it.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by d33 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:12AM (#12682911)
Perhaps they ended up with this problem precisely because they rushed?
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by mtgx on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:18AM (#12682946)
They did rush - they launched Note 7 a year ahead of its time (last year we had Note 5) when they were only supposed to release Note 6. That takes, dare I say, courage. (just a joke, they just skipped the number 6 to put it in line with the Galaxy S generation).
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by Razengan on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:41AM (#12683395)
It's more likely that they named it 7 to put it as a direct competitor to the iPhone 7 Plus.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:28PM (#12687151)
They named it 7 so it would line up with the S7.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by madeofpalk on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:23AM (#12682973)
In the same way that Windows 10 was rushed to be a year early because they 'skipped' Windows 9?
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by Piskvorrr on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:41AM (#12683056)
Pretty sure that one was to avoid a Windows Nein. (They are still striving for a Windows?Nein! situation given the FUBAR Anniversary Edition, albeit "by any other name")
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by beanbragade on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:44AM (#12683810)
I think it was so users wouldn't follow "Windows 9x" tutorials thinking they would still work.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by nandhp on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:38AM (#12684761)
I think it was actually for the software that was doing that:

    	if (osName.startsWith("windows 9"))
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397664
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by madeofpalk on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:08AM (#12683215)
I know - I was trying to use sarcasm to point how how marketing names don't really mean much in terms of product development and doesn't indicate anything here was rushed out the door.
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