I wonder if the Galaxy Note 7 will in the future be a rare, valuable collectable item.
Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's so common, it's ridiculous. The NYT has the same policy, and you have to call in on certain days of the week at certain times. They even published an opinion piece decrying the practice while participating in it. The call centre employees will even discount your subscription to try to keep you. Not at all cool.
I finally started letting Amex sort this out. I'll attempt to call to cancel a service (during my local business hours), follow up with a short letter if the call is unsuccessful. After that, any new charges that appear result in a call to the Amex Fraud Dept. Sadly there have been a couple services I had to do this with.
I had the same thing with the Times (Murdoch-owned) in the UK. I remember that I got through on the phone but they said that it wouldn't be possible to cancel my account without charging the next two (monthly) billing cycles.
I cancelled my card and somehow they managed to cancel the account once payment didn't go through.
Only fucking subscribed because of one article we were in, ended up paying for almost a year of none-usage.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the newspaper themselves who bypass their own firewall when you come from google. They can easily disable it if they want to.
They have to be very careful -- Google's guidelines are very strict about content that they index. If you display different content to a user than the content that Google has indexed, that will cause Google to drop the page from their index, and may affect the overall quality rating for your site in Google's index. Nobody really wants to cross them here; if you want your content indexed and displayed in search result…
Not exactly. Google actually allows some sort of "google bot" login and see as well as this : https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543
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#224I wonder if the Galaxy Note 7 will in the future be a rare, valuable collectable item.
Particularly an unexploded one.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
‘Samsung in US “exploding washing machines” probe’: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37503116
Love the last line of that article! The irony!
Samsung – our business is exploding! This is a minor brand disaster but as others have said, consumers have short memories.
Look at Toyota's unintended acceleration issues as a good example. Has it really impacted them many months on?
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#226[drip, drip, drip, drip, drip…] They have spent a huge amount of money on marketing this phone. I wrote a week or so back it could be the end of Samsung and people told me I was an idiot - they make so many other things, their spread is so broad, they can just produce the next phone and move on. This has done untold damage to their brand in the eyes of the average consumer and has wasted so much money, I think they a…
They could just rebrand. Here in Japan, Korean companies are unpopular so they're just branded "Galaxy" with no "Samsung" to be seen.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could probably drop in a replacement with what, half the capacity? But that impacts the whole design of the 'phone. There's a huge difference between a phone that lasts one day and a phone that lasts half a day. So they'd be looking to lower the screen brightness, maybe find a less power-hungry processor and/or LTE chip,.... by the time you've finished accomodating that kind of change it's a new model anyway.
3500 mAh doesn't strike as something astonishing. There are Chinese phones with >5000 mAh battery for sale (though I would not dare to vouch for their safety), even Galaxy S7 have 3000 mAh battery.
You should take the advertised battery size of anything from China with a very large pinch of salt.
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#228In other news Apple stock surges, despite the iPhone 7 falling short of expectations.
It met the expectation of not exploding, so in this context I'm not sure what your point is.
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#229[drip, drip, drip, drip, drip…] They have spent a huge amount of money on marketing this phone. I wrote a week or so back it could be the end of Samsung and people told me I was an idiot - they make so many other things, their spread is so broad, they can just produce the next phone and move on. This has done untold damage to their brand in the eyes of the average consumer and has wasted so much money, I think they a…
They are still selling S7/Edge by the truckloads - not to mention old versions of the S phones and Notes. And some consumers are even buying their incomprehensible A/C/J/E phones. And they are introducing S8 in March, and given lack of viable competition on high-end Android it will sell like hotcakes. The damage will be to their stock and missed profits from Note 7 sales, as well as some loss to lawsuits. Maybe it wi…
Exactly, they also have an entire line up semiconductors and screens. Samsung is not just a phone company.
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#230So... Slightly OT but not 100%...
For those of us wanting a phablet, what are the options right now?
Pixel is, IMHO, too expensive. The Note was top-end too, but at least had Wireless charging, which I like. Now it's gone. I don't 'do' iOS.
What's left? Most of the other phablets have got smaller, the Moto Z looks quite good (no QI, but otherwise great). People rave about the OnePlus 3 but the screen is low-res compared to many. I have found a device called "LeMax 2" by "Le Eco" which is dirt cheap by comparison, 5.7" QHD, snapdragon 820-based... Has anyone tried one?