Is Samsung in trouble?
Does anybody else think this could be the end for Samsung? Or at least their gain in the phone business? Bunch of their phones (Galaxy Note) explode. They react late to recalls. One of the replacement phones apparently catches fire. All the telecom companies are issuing exchanges, AT&T is threatening to just ban them all together. I genuinely thought they shipped great products, especially lately. Can anybody comment? I remember seeing some Samsung folks before?
Is the normal S7 (non Edge, non Note) affected at all by this?
Good time for Google to come out with a top tier Android phone π
According to a CreditSuisse report, Samsung will lose at least 5% of 2016 revenue because of the Note 7 issues. It is expected to also lose significant market share in some geographies. However, it is a large and diverse conglomerate and this will not break it, although recovery will be very painful
it's not at all end for Samsung phones even though their phone explode recently. There are a lot of apple haters out there and samsung is the only strong choice they have. Remember some of the iPhone also exploded and were bent in the pocket but no one remembers that anymore. Yes, it might be a set back for them but it will not blow them away.
I'm pretty sure this is Google's chance to outshine Samsung with their Pixel lineup. It'll be really interesting if Google becomes a major player in the mobile phone market.
Never gonna happen, but would be very interesting.
This seems like a great opportunity for LG to step up and fill the gap.
People don't forget. They do remember e.g. Apple iPhone 6+ bending. But battery exploding is on another level of failure for Samsung. They really need to do the recall right and change policies/ procedures/ put in checks and balances to vow this never happens again and be transparent with a post mortem. Similar to Intel with Pentium 90 FDIV bug. People didn't forget and they still buy Core processors today.
They are in trouble, but this isn't even close to the end. If they don't speak to the public soon though, their mobile division is going to seriously tank. Just remember, mobile phones is only 12% of their business model bringing in 18% of their profits.
I agree with you. The recent article by the NYTimes was very damaging to their reputation. Asking internally to stop communicating via email to avoid liability. Samsung needs to make a public statement now or things will get worse
They aren't telling us much. I just presume there is a shitstorm brewing and we'll just get slapped with some lies about how/why this happened, or just be informed that this is just a case of sabotage.