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That doesn't excuse repeating it. You could've easily gotten the point across that you agree with their assessment without going with those words.
I don't, personally, consider those words so offensive as to unrepeatable.
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Use the web link at the top. Even better is that you get an AMP version of the story.
That hasn't worked for me, for several months now. I've had good luck with a Firefox add-on called Paywall-pass, though.
1. Click "web" (or alternately, Google the title of the article, verbatim from the article itself)
2. Click the appropriate link from Google, so that my referrer will be google.com.
When I do that, I still get the pay-walled article. I've tried deleting my wsj cookies and doing the same. I've tried using another computer on another network, with the same result.
That raises two questions for me: What am I doing wrong? Why do I get dinged without explanation for suggesting a second approach that does work for me?
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Well, let's go through their other businesses. Samsung SDI is going to struggle in a World with cheap coal prices and political inclinations (cf. Trump campaign) to not care about environmental impacts. Samsung Heavy Industries is already struggling because of market demands for new container ships dropping off sharply in recent years - there has been a glut of supply for some years. Their Engineering and Constructio…
So they have a massively diversified business that faces many risks, just as others in those sectors do, but which is generally doing pretty well. One phone will not kill this. Having just bought a new Samsung washing machine, the story that they are exploding seems to have passed me by. I'm not a fanboi - I'm typing this on a Nexus 6 and considering another motorola next - I just think that saying this might be fata…
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/95yearold-woman-rescued-from-samsu...
http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/samsung-overhauls-wash...
Second link claims 49 fires in 3.5 years
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Except you can't fully disable ads unless they've patched it in the last 6 or so months. I had a very long back and forth with them about it and they kept denying it until finally admitting that it was impossible to disable. Worse, they were using the notification bar to advertise gamefly. Not cool. Keep in mind the TV I had was their flagship first gen 4k tv. There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar t…
I bought a Samsung 4k TV ~1 year ago, and turning off the Smart TV features (smart hub, or whatever they called it) most definitely turned off the ads. I'm not actually getting 4k video out of my TV, (since neither the apple tv or playstation support it), but I'm not terribly concerned about that (as I can't tell the difference at the distance I sit from my television). I wanted a dumb TV anyway, but costco didn't ha…
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Given that other people here seem to be capable of discussing the actual subject at hand, the posting of paywalled articles obviously isn't wasted on the community at large. However, every irrelevant tangent about how terrible paywalls are is a waste of time.
Given that other people in this thread seem to be capable of disucssing the paywall, complaints about it obviously aren't wasted on the community at large.
This thread is about Samsung discontinuing the Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone, it's not about the paywall, or whether Hacker News should allow paywalls.
This community is about prioritizing signal over noise and these tangents are always, always mere noise.
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Brand damage? 13-year-old kids are getting burned by these phones. Airplanes have been evacuated due to these phones. This is not a media overreaction.
Even if Samsung were to get their failure rates in line with Apple, Motorola, LG, and other manufacturers, a Samsung failure will still generate more coverage than any other brand. That's why there's no point in trying to salvage the Note 7. BTW, this isn't the first plane to be evacuated due to a phone fire. Remember this story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-272965... There are others if you…
Hello, Tim Cook on line 1. He'd like to quibble with your generalization.
What I find interesting about those earlier reports is the lack of follow-up. We know that the Note 7 explosions are happening "out of the box"; iPhone failures of this nature have often been attributed to cheap 3rd party chargers, but I can't find any information about the iPhones that led to evacuated flights.
Anyway, we're going to have to agree to disagree. There have been dozens of documented exploding Note 7 devices, which as best as I can determine is unprecedented. Any phone manufacturer would be under heavy fire.
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I completely disagree. People love shiny and they have a short memory even though there's this wonderful thing called the internet that can remember things for them. All Samsung has to do is come out with something shiny and people will be buying it and blogging about it. People still buy Ford cars even though they made the Pinto and their SUVs used Firestone tires. People still buy Toyota without even a thought as t…
I agree with the disagreement, we are also not talking about some one trick pony which solely depends on successfully selling this thing. Samsung as a whole and even the consumer electronics part alone is a massive and diversified conglomerate. They should be easily able to swallow the financial losses of such a failure in a single product category and let it survive during a bit of a lean period until customers rega…
The rest of the company has much thinner margins. This undeniably hurts their business.
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Maybe next time they'll offer replaceable batteries, which would have made this situation much less painful and is generally a plus for consumers anyway...
To make the battery replaceable while still providing the same amount of energy would require a thicker case around the battery, thicker contacts, and a discrete accessible compartment in the phone. All of this adds up to a much bigger phone. The days of replaceable batteries are over.
No they are not. The LG's flagship the v20 which is launching any day has a removable 3200mAh battery.
For comparison the Samsung S7 Note has a 3500mAh.
Also the footprint of the V20 is comparable to that of the S7.
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To make the battery replaceable while still providing the same amount of energy would require a thicker case around the battery, thicker contacts, and a discrete accessible compartment in the phone. All of this adds up to a much bigger phone. The days of replaceable batteries are over.
The chase for the thinnest device possible is plain stupid, the current devices with a replaceable battery are already thin enough to fit in a pocket, why go even further if it's such an inconvenience? For me, not having a replaceable battery is a very good reason to avoid buying such a device.