Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by WhitneyLand on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:27AM (#12683312)

Because sometimes they break stories and have exclusive content and in depth info that others won't have immediately if ever. For example they were ahead of everyone with the Theranos news.

I think the idea of putting links on HN is its better to know about it asap, rather than possibly using a slower or less comprehensive source.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by hackerkid on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:36AM (#12683761)

> Because sometimes they break stories and have exclusive content and in depth info that others won't have immediately if ever

This story has been in Reddit home page for last 14 hours pointing to the original source on the official Samsung website[1]. This content is neither exclusive nor breaking.

[1] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-will-ask-all-global-...

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by novaleaf on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:06AM (#12683976)

That's not exactly true. The story that's been floating around for 14 hours is that sales have been put on hold and all units should be recalled.

This WSJ article on samsung PERMANENTLY discontinuing sales is a substantially different development.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by leereeves on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:48AM (#12683441)

But is this exclusive content?

Is there anything in the WSJ article that isn't in another source, like The Telegraph?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/11/samsung-tel...

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by apaprocki on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:01AM (#12683529)

Bloomberg story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-11/samsung-e...

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by metafunctor on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @07:42AM (#12683401)

That's a good point, and I applaud the Wall Street Journal for their journalistic efforts. I'm thinking we should get a WSJ subscription in our company.

I'm not so sure if Hacker News should be an outlet for breaking news. The HN platform is not very well suited for real-time news in general.

Myself, I use Hacker news for "daily important news" much less than breaking news.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by johnchristopher on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:02AM (#12683941)

I don't like getting into word definition argument but doesn't that information about Samsung fall under the daily important news rather than the breaking news ?

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by metafunctor on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:17AM (#12684069)

Yes, it does. That's why I'd like to see a link to a free source (that doesn't require one to pull ostentibly illegal tricks to read the contents) rather than an advertisement.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by johnchristopher on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:49PM (#12688406)

Ah, my bad. I misinterpreted.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by rms_returns on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:11AM (#12683582)

BBC News:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37618618

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by richardboegli on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:23AM (#12684111)

Bloomberg actually had it almost two hours earlier than WSJ. I've just posted it to HN just now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684081

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by arjie on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:17AM (#12684541)

Yeah, but Bloomberg publishes a lot of rubbish. Rumours and lots of secondary news, so you never know if it is true.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by novaleaf on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:11PM (#12686302)

re: the parent's downvoters:

ok, so @arjie is a bit on the snarky side, but he does have a point.

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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by Grishnakh on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:02AM (#12685010)

>I think the idea of putting links on HN is its better to know about it asap, rather than possibly using a slower or less comprehensive source.

I agree, but in light of the comments above about their horrific and unethical subscription-cancellation policies and practices, I think there should be a clear warning attached to every link from a news source like this, highlighting exactly what you're getting into if you choose to subscribe in order to read the article.

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