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Zach Epstein
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After a month-long saga involving an exploding smartphone, an unprecedented global recall program and a defect that Samsung just couldn't seem to put a pin in, the company on Tuesday morning announced that it is discontinuing the Galaxy Note 7. Nothing like this has ever happened at this scale in the cell phone industry, and we can only hope that nothing like this ever happens again. Reports out of South Korea ahead of the Note 7's release suggested that the phone was being rushed in order to give it as much time as possible on store shelves ahead of Apple's iPhone 7 launch. If that indeed was the case, Samsung's haste may have been its undoing. Whatever the case, the best smartphone Samsung has ever made ended up being the worst thing to have ever happened to the company's mobile business.(more…)
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