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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by M_Grey on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:21PM (#12685832)
In the public imagination, cars explode. No one expects their phone to explode, especially just... randomly and out of the clear blue.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:51PM (#12687409)
But virtually nobody knows anyone who's phone has exploded, so I don't see this impacting Samsung that much.
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Re:Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone by M_Grey on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:03PM (#12687522)
But virtually everyone knows that they have exploded, has been told to shut them off on flights, has older relatives asking them if their S4 is save, etc... This is not going away, especially since they've been unable to figure out what's going wrong, and have just told people to turn it off.

Besides, driving is really dangerous, but calling your girlfriend isn't supposed to leave you with full thickness burns.

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