Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by MicroBerto on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:29AM (#12682999)

> many consumers won't buy Samsung phones again as a minimum when they're first released, maybe never as a worst case scenario.

I think this is an overreaction. I have a Samsung, and will buy another if it's the best value for what I need next time I'm phone shopping.

Consumers have short memories and there aren't that many legitimate alternatives to Apple.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by toxican on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:33AM (#12684182)

Personally I'm hoping the next iteration of the Note sees a nice price drop to convince consumers to buy back in. I'd jump in at that point.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by Nursie on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:14AM (#12684517)

If it boots them out of the prestige-pricing range into the "it's got every feature of the rest for a hundred bucks less, you'd be crazy not to" range that Google used to inhabit with Nexus, that could be a good thing...

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by jonlucc on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:29AM (#12684657)

I think you overestimate the ability of consumers to discriminate between phones. Samsung intentionally named their phones "Samsung Galaxy S7" and "Samsung Note 7". Lots of people don't know that only one of the two is exploding (anecdotally, my wife and her parents).

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