whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote

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 clearly arent as disposable as shoes and
underwear which people also used to repair.

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

They clearly arent as disposable as shoes and
underwear which people also used to repair.

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.

They clearly arent as disposable as shoes and
underwear which people also used to repair.

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

Corse we will know how many chose to buy an S8

perhaps they all waited and didn;t ungrade their existing phone
until the 8 came out but maybe they brought a differtn smartphone.

And we'll know how many bought an S8.

samsugn arenlt know for brand loyalty like Apple are rightly or wrongly
it's a fact.

Nothing even remotely like a fact in fact.

Have you ever heard of samsung fanbois like you here of Apple fanbois ?

Yep, and know some personally too. In fact I know more who are with Samsung
than Apple.