SAMSUNG NOTE 8 NOT DOING WELL
Posted on 09/21/2017 10:17:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker
According to a new report posted by a Korean news site today, Samsung Electronics is seeking to win back the Chinese smartphone market with the Galaxy Note 8. The company plans to regain the trust of consumers that was battered by the Galaxy Note 7 battery fires and overcome China's retaliation against South Korean companies over the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system. However, Chinese mass media is pouring negative articles about the Galaxy Note 8 every day. Consequently preorders for the new Note 8 pale in comparison to those for Apple's new iPhone 8.
Preorders of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 reached 8,310 and 5,292, respectively, at JD.COM and Alibaba's Tmall, the two largest online retail marketplaces in China, as of 2:40pm on September 19. Considering preorders through Samsung Electronics' official websites and stores, the figure is estimated at over 20,000.
Chinese media is eager in criticizing the Galaxy Note 8 by comparing Apple's iPhone 8 which began receiving preorders around the same time. A Chinese IT news outlet said, "The iPhone 8 received more than 4 million preorders but the Samsung Note 8 received only thousands of preorders."
Samsung would have had higher orders had it been winter time.................
I agree, Apple clearly makes the best hardware & software, seamlessly integrates the hardware & software and has the world’s best security. I’ve moved fully into the Apple “ecosystems”.
But I do miss Steve Jobs — he wisely stayed out of politics and focused wholly on the quality & capabilities of Apple’s products & the needs of Apple’s customers. The current CEO (who couldn’t fit into Job’s shoes if he stuffed them with ten newspapers) stupidly goes around expressing HIS personal political & social views. That only serves to needlessly distract from Apple’s core missions and annoys the hell out of most people — including the great bulk of Apple’s customers & shareholders.
I just got back from the Apple Store this morning to get a pair of AirPods and it was a LOT less crowded than previous iPhone release days. The sales associate explained that the iPhone 8 could be ordered online for delivery today which I guess hasn’t been the case before.
Nope. A modern Lithium Ion battery has a normal failure rate of about 1 in 12-15 million per year, where you might get some over heating. That's an acceptable failure rate and expected. Samsung's PR department tried desperately to find and promote the very few reports of iPhones that did in fact overheat into a similar "Issue" as the problem they were having with their Galaxy Note 8.
However, the failure rate of their note 8, after less than two months on the market, was approaching 1 in 2500, with only 1.5 million sold into the hands of users and 3 million shipped into the sales channels. Calculating out that rate, it worked out to a failure rate that indicated they'd all fail in two years.
Samsung later reported they had determined that the manufacturing of the battery compressed the layers too strongly, in an attempt to increase the capacity by adding more layers in a small space, and the batteries swelled under Samsung's rapid charging technology. After an undetermined number of rapid charges, the barriers between the lamina in the batteries failed and arcing would occur resulting in overheating, fire, and sometimes explosive failures.
Now that's funny. But they'd be good for hand warmers/fire starters onetime only. Matches are much more cost effective and more efficient.
Interesting trend. Even under Steve Jobs, the Apple Employee Political Action Committee, an independent from Apple Non-Profit organization where the individual employees direct where their contribution must be donated, was making ~90% of the political donations to Democrats and ~10% to Republicans. But now, in the last election, with Cook at the helm of Apple, the percentage of Apple Employee directed PAC donations to Democrats was only around ~80% and ~20% went to Republican politicians. For the Silicon Valley, that's almost a sea change. . .and probably a push back to Cook's over-the-top Liberal activism.
It was the same last year with the introduction of the iPhone 7 and 7 plus. . . yet Apple had the best Quarter sales in their history and opening weekend of any iPhone since the introduction of the new iPhone 6 and 6 plus. Apple has been offering the pre-orders online to avoid the line-up issues since the iPhone 4s and it has cut down on the crowds at the stores considerably on opening days because customers know they have the latest new iPhone delivered to their door on the opening day by FedEx. Apple had 4 million pre-orders for the iPhone 8 in just in China, let alone the 29 other countries including the US where it is being delivered today, September 22, 2017.
In addition, Menehune56, the iPhone 8 is not Apple's Flagship introduction this year. The Flagship for Apple is the iPhone X, which is not coming out until November 2nd.
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