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Samsung Chief Says He Pushed Galaxy Fold 'Before It Was Ready' (engadget.com) 61

PolygamousRanchKid shares a report from Engadget: Samsung hasn't commented much on its decision to delay the Galaxy Fold and address design flaws, but it's opening up a little today. The company's electronics division CEO, DJ Koh, told those at a media event that he "pushed [the phone] through before it was ready." The setback was "embarrassing," he added. While Koh didn't elaborate on what happened, the statement suggests that Samsung was in a hurry to get the Fold out the door and claim some bragging rights. The Fold was supposed to arrive in late April, but early reviewers quickly discovered problems, including a display cover that was too easy to peel off and gaps that allowed debris to get behind the foldable screen. It was all too easy to break the sensitive panel -- and that would have been a problem with any phone, let alone one costing $1,980. Koh noted that Samsung had over 2,000 devices in the field and "defined all the issues," but didn't give an answer as to when the Fold might go back on sale.
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Samsung Chief Says He Pushed Galaxy Fold 'Before It Was Ready'

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    That sounds like most if the software projects i've seen throughout my career.

    Management says we must have it out by x. With understuffed, overworked, staff. Features are developed but not tested because there is no time to test and then boom.

  • by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:11AM (#58859952)
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    • Certainly that is the most rarest of news, especially to us, knowing our average CEO/leader. ;)

      Next: White whale and raven form band with black swan before being hit by a plane hit by a shooting star, while winning the lottery! And now the weather: London: Sunny 30C, Hell: Rainy -18C!

    • Re:News at 11 (Score:5, Interesting)

      by fuzzyfuzzyfungus ( 1223518 ) on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @06:11AM (#58860094) Journal
      A C-level admitted responsibility for an embarrassing failure rather than deflecting blame onto an expendable peon. Isn't that a bit unusual?
      • A C-level admitted responsibility for an embarrassing failure rather than deflecting blame onto an expendable peon. Isn't that a bit unusual?

        Not really. It doesn't really hurt him in any meaningful way and he knows it. They have thousands of products and not all of them are big hits. This was obviously a speculative product near the edge of our current capabilities and I think everyone recognized that. Hell even Steve Jobs would sometimes publicly admit failures (after the fact) when they were obvious enough. The videos are out there if you care to look for them. Not like he was going to lose his job over them. All big companies have prod

        • Not really. It doesn't really hurt him in any meaningful way and he knows it.

          The fold is going to be one of the most epic technology flops ever. Google glass level flop. Newton level flop. Atari E.T. game level flop.

          Also, this is not an American company. In the far east, they worry a lot more about failures.

      • by mjwx ( 966435 )

        A C-level admitted responsibility for an embarrassing failure rather than deflecting blame onto an expendable peon. Isn't that a bit unusual?

        You're thinking like an American. This guy is a divisional C-level exec in Samsung, Korea... That means he's effectively untouchable.

      • The whole thing is really fallout from the Apple iPhone lawsuit. In that case, Samsung wanted to show the phones it was working on in R&D before the iPhone was released, and how they were iPhone-like before anyone outside of Apple had ever seen the iPhone. But the judge wouldn't allow them to present that evidence because they missed a filing deadline, resulting in them losing the case. I believe the lesson Samsung learned from that is if you're going to err, it's better to err on the side of releasi
    • It is obvious that the phone was pushed out before it was ready. So exactly what was the news here?

      That the head guy admitted it.

  • The competition is fierce, just take a look at the recent Huawei crisis, where the Chinese government is accused of pushing Huawei into spying for them, when it has been a well known fact that American produced Intel chips have had these backdoors in them since 2010, but did Intel get banned for this? Nope. Banning products becomes very convenient when money gets involved, and this is really the cold war of our times.

    Samsung pushed it out too early, why? Because it's a war about who has the latest and great

  • by LordHighExecutioner ( 4245243 ) on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @06:01AM (#58860074)
    ...pushed the Samsung Galaxy Note out of his own office before it exploded!
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  • It was bloody obvious. Even that the clown admits it is not news.
    • Even that the clown admits it is not news.

      A C-suite admitting to a mistake is not news? What planet are you from, and welcome to Earth.

  • Samsung was in a hurry to get the Fold out the door and claim some bragging rights.

    Corporate Trumpism is rampant. (Wait, that's redundant.)

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