Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:27AM
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This time almost everybody knows. With every flight announcing "you can use your electronic devices now, in airplane mode - except for the Galaxy Note 7, that must stay off during all the trip", people won't forget for a while.
In Samsung's shoes, I'd kill the Note brand.
Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
by pimlottc on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:00PM
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You may be surprised how much of the general public doesn't fly regularly.
Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
by scottmf on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:18PM
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There's certainly a significant overlap between people who fly and people who buy flagship Samsung phones.
Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
by _asummers on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:37AM
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Your last paragraph contradicts your overall point. To me, that reads like your friends associated it with the entire brand, not that they were unaware of the exploding phones. That's worse for Samsung.
You'd be surprised about how much of the general public even knows that there is a type of Samsung phone that can spontaneously combust, and the proportion of those people that care and will continue to remember that fact when they are looking for a new phone is also going to be quite small.
I have had to explain the story to friends who gave me blank looks when I explained that my Samsung S7 was not the kind that exploded...