[milankragujevic]

My, rather cheap, Samsung phone had it's battery puff up and after I put the battery in a metal container for a month, it did catch fire and burn for a short time inside the container. That's a rather known problem for a Galaxy S3 Mini and such. I had to buy a new battery. So it might not be surprising that a same problem has occurred with the Note 7, it might be a bad battery supplier.

[behnamoh]

The surprising part is that Note product line is supposed to be pretty mature after all these years, but we still observe these childish issues in the final product. If you're copying from Apple or others, at least do it right.

[vertex-four]

Batteries are (un)surprisingly hard to get right. You store an incredible amount of energy in a very small space. Any issue in the supply chain - anyone cutting corners anywhere - can cause serious issues.

This is what people get for demanding incredibly powerful computers with reasonably long battery life at the smallest possible sizes.

[dingo_bat]

Apple has copied more from the note series than vice versa.

[ceejayoz]

Like what?

And no, Android features Apple copied from Google don't count.

[audeyisaacs]

Remember the old "This is your thumb" ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE

The Note line also had NFC first I believe.

[dingo_bat]

Like the big screen form factor. And multi window apps. And moving screen elements so you can easily reach them.

[Nursie]

Well, the phablet form factor - the Samsung note range did create (or perhaps reveal) that particular market, which Apple eventually decided to move into.

Software-wise, I have no idea as I've never really used an iPhone.

[ceejayoz]

If you're going to credit Samsung for the phablet form factor then you need to credit Apple for the iPhone and iPad form factor it built off, and so on and so forth.

[Nursie]

I'm not the initial poster and have no interest in defending the initial claim about who contributed more, I just wanted to give one example where Samsung lead the market and Apple followed.

Presumably we should also be giving credit to MS for their early pushing of the tabletpc form-factor. It's all evolutionary...