On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 18:27:35 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message


The Microsoft Surfaces can't be opened without destroying them and they
sell anyway, presumably because most arent aware that they arent
repairable.

Most aren;t intrested in getting them repaired they either work or
they don't when they stop working you replace them. They are as
disposable as shoes and underwear which peolpe also used to repair.

I'm not convinced about that with cracked screens, particularly
with the expensive high end smartphones.

you've not seen people use smartphones with cracked screens ?

They may not give
it much thought when buying the phone, but they do certainly
consider it after they drop it and crack the screen.

and lots of people don't bother getting it repaired Sure some will but that will depend on price, a friend of mine when he first got an iphone5 cracked teh screen within 6 months kept it a year in that condition, when one of his friends got a job repairing phones he's mate did it for free otherwise he wouldnlt have bothered.

, lifeproof
cases do help with that but they have their own downsides.

Yep,


yes, it's cost samsung quite a bit.
Maybe the saving on testing or spending money on a betteryh
battery didnlt pay off this time, better luck next time perhaps.

It probably saved them a fortune actually.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38714461

The recall is thought to have cost $5.3bn (£4.3bn) and was
hugely damaging for the South Korean firm's reputation.

It remains to be seen what effect it has on sales.

It had an efect on sales, people didn't buy them

I meant with the new S8s, not the Note.

We'll never know perhaps they all waited and didn;t ungrade their existing phone until the 8 came out but maybe they brought a differtn smartphone.
samsugn arenlt know for brand loyalty like Apple are rightly or wrongly it's a fact. Have you ever heard of samsung fanbois like you here of Apple fanbois ?