Samsung Proves Its Business Remains Sound Despite Note 7 Fiasco (bloomberg.com) 49
Samsung underscored the resilience of its business when it reported its best operating profit in three years, weathering the death of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 with the help of its workmanlike chip and display divisions and cheaper smartphones. From a report on Bloomberg: The world's largest maker of mobile devices posted a 50 percent surge in quarterly operating profit after demand from Chinese smartphone brands pushed up memory chip prices and buoyed the unit that makes organic light-emitting diode screens. Samsung also touched up an older phone line-up with new colors and features, helping tide it over in the Note 7's absence. Samsung is emerging from its biggest corporate crisis, when reports of incendiary Note 7s forced the Korean company to kill its most profitable gadget. It still hasn't revealed the results of a subsequent investigation into an episode that cost Samsung more than $6 billion and assured Apple of the lead in premium devices over the holidays. It's now counting on its next marquee phone to repair its reputation. "Despite the Note 7's vacuum, Samsung acquitted itself well on the back of sound S7 sales," said Lee Seung-woo, an analyst with IBK Securities Co. in Seoul. "After a softer landing in the first quarter, Samsung is on track for record June quarter profit with the new S8 coming to market."
The company may be sound (Score:1)
But I will never buy anything from them again and will recommend against Samsung to anyone that asks.
It not only the Note fiasco, it's the way they treat android and updates. Either provide vanilla android, on time, or move to something else.
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They who?!
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Re: The company may be sound (Score:1)
Their stupid "ecosystem" with tons of bloatware, unusable keyboard, spyware and shit will not survive on its own. If they offered S7-8 with pure android or other pure platform I'd consider that.
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I have an S7 and I quite like it. They've dialed back the TouchWiz silliness to the point that I had very little difficulty transitioning from stock Android. The keyboard is eminently usable; I have Swype installed but find myself not using it. There's some bloatware but it's easily ignored, and some of it I actually use. On the whole it doesn't bother me at all, in fact it's probably the best phone I've owned.
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Not so clear: I was thinking of the users of the devices (the OP talks about them, you know...), not the company
* it's a matter of text interpretation: and you, speak English?
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Do you mean
(a) Samsung hates Google more than Samsung hates Apple,
OR do you mean:
(b) Samsung hates Google more than Apple hates Google?
Keeping in mind both could be true, of course.
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Samsung loves both Google and Apple. Google makes them rich with Android and Apple buys chips from them.
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Provide vanilla android and compete with Chinese manufacturers selling similar speced phones for half the price. I don't see it happen.
Samsung don't sell Android devices, they sell Samsung devices. They want to keep their brand identity and I think it is a good thing.
First, Samsung introduced plenty of useful features, a lot of useless ones too. Some of the good ones ended up in vanilla Android, that's a win for everyone else.
Second, it helps keeping Google in check. Because Samsung is not vanilla Android,
Re:The company may be sound (Score:4, Insightful)
So you recommend against Samsung for a reason that would disqualify every other Android as well.
Thankyou for your thoughtful and insightful post. We are all better for it.
Re: The company may be sound (Score:2)
including a bang up year for top loading washers! (Score:2)
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Peak Slashdot (Score:1)
I thought Slashdot readers were lazy readers before... until I saw the one who can't even be bothered to read the subject of a one-line post! Wow!
You might even say you have the ultimate hot-take.... except of course for all the Samsung Note 7 owners.
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Except that a Samsung washing machine WAS prone to "exploding". Or rather, an unbalanced load would shake it apart (and given the violence of the shaking, fling said pieces outward in an apparent explosion).
So yea
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"Since early last year, there have been 21 reports to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) about the exploding washers... [goodhousekeeping.com]"
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You're very sensitive.
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Apple cultists are so entertaining, especially when they flock.
Samsung is hot! (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, Samsung is so hot!
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Damn, Samsung is so hot!
I first thought you were making a Zoolander reference. Then thought you were making light of their fire Note 7 issue. Then lastly, i realized you were doing two jokes -- both Zoolander reference and Note 7.
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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Spokesman: "Our business is doing fine, in fact we are booming ... Uh, I mean we are NOT booming, I mean ... we are doing fine. Have a great day, thank you, bye."
Samsung is a huge company (Score:2)
Samsung is a gigantic company with its hand in hundreds of products. The unfortunately Note 7 incident won't be enough to sink the entire company. They're so diverse that even a non-Samsung brand phone may have Samsung parts. And some of their products like their SSD have been outright stellar compared to the competition for performance and value. So yes a small bump in the road for the Samsung bus, not a house swallowing sinkhole.
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So will the next note have an end user replaceable battery or are they going to gamble another $6 billion to save maybe $50 million in battery costs (nothing to do with design and everything to do with cheaper batteries and designed product failure to ensure replacement). PS Samung calling people who prefer user removable batteries fanboys just makes Samung a bunch of fuckwit marketing dickheads https://www.sammobile.com/2016... [sammobile.com].
What fiasco? (Score:1)
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Couldnt even push a free samsung 7 on me. (Score:2)
Most phones are downgrades, no sd card slot, no headphone jack, no removable battery. I can't see ever buying a samsung again, when dozens of other vendors are offering uncrippled phones for less money. Samsung just isnt worth it.
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Er, what?
S7 has an SD card slot and a headphone jack. The battery is not removable but it is a good sized battery that lasts well. The phone is also waterproof and sturdy, feels solid (if a little slippy) and performs very well. Perhaps you were thinking of the S6 (which had a diabolical battery and no SD card slot)?
Of course their business is sound! (Score:2)
They sell devices that spy on people. SO many customers to pay for that, and those customers pay in ways SO much more valuable than currency. Duh.
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Ha. I'm not going to make a list, but I don't think all tech companies do things like ship hidden front-facing cameras in televisions without calling attention to it.
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They only do that so that they can watch you masturbate. They're just lonely is all. So why don't you throw them a bone(r) already?
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They only do that so that they can watch you masturbate.
Sheesh, get over it people. If someone wants to watch you masturbate, what you should do is feel flattered by the gesture.
the new Note 8! (Score:2)
Thermal runaway is now instantaneous! that way no witnesses will be left behind.