[r00fus]

This entire episode seems hard to believe. How could Sammy fail so hard after so many years of industry knowledge? What corners did they cut?

Is it just unbalanced reporting or possibly sabotage? Seriously don't believe they got wrong what everyone else seems to have dodged.

[joonhocho]

I see the whole fiasco to be deeply related to how Samsung is run and controlled by the infamous Lee family. Note 7's battery is made by Samsung SDI, one of Samsung's subsidiaries, and I assume that SDI gets most of its revenues directly from Samsung Electronics. When you (SDI) have Samsung as your guaranteed customer, you don't really have to compete or try to survive. Besides, Samsung always set their flagship release dates based on expected Apple's iPhone releases, always trying to ship to market few weeks before Apple. When your release dates are set to your competitors' pace, not your own, you will certainly make mistakes like this.

[MrQuincle]

The replacement battery is henceforth not made by SDI. Around 30% of the existing Note 7s were made by Amperex Technology, so they only need to increase those numbers.

You're statement would also mean that if you're a department within Apple you also do not need to compete or try to survive. I don't think that's necessarily true. There are probably inefficiencies, but there is also a lot to gain as well. It just depends on the quality of the organization.

[sp332]

They're not the only ones, even recently. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/mcdonalds-recalls-hap... http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2016/08/04/psa-basis-peak-wear... http://www.pcworld.com/article/3050377/hardware/major-toshib... https://www.nextpowerup.com/news/29739/xiaomi-mi-band-2-is-p... https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2016/Denon-Recalls-Rechargeable...

[Gigablah]

Even the iPhone 7 is not immune; my boss got one that suddenly started overheating and he had to get it replaced.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-7-randomly-overhe...

[simonh]

That doesn't appear to be battery related, but the camera app somehow over-taxing the CPU.

[twblalock]

> Is it just unbalanced reporting or possibly sabotage? Seriously don't believe they got wrong what everyone else seems to have dodged.

It's happened to other companies in the past. It's entirely plausible that Samsung just screwed up in the design or manufacturing stage, and there is zero evidence of the conspiracies you suggest.

[M_Grey]

"Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent." -Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. Do we not often afflict others undesignedly, and, from mere carelessness, neglect to relieve distress?" -Jane West

It's not hard to believe that Samsung has made mistakes, and maybe under the pressure to fix those mistakes has made yet more. It's unfortunate and probably speaks to some cultural issues at the top, but it hardly requires external forces.