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.
No way! (Score:1)
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.
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It's not the American Way. Here, if we get caught in a lie we double down and repeat the lie even louder.
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That he stands by it and feels bad about it? (Score:1)
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)
Not unusual (Score:2)
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
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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.
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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.
Not entirely a failure (Score:3)
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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.
This is war, as we know it today. (Score:2)
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
TL;DR. Isn't *everything* a "war" to you... (Score:1)
... Americans?
And if it isn't, you make it one.
I mean "war on Christmas" .... need I say more?
Calm down, guys. You're OK.
He also... (Score:3)
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"Face it, there is not much excitement left in smartphone."
Most people stopped being exited by them about 5 minutes after Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007.
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The next big thing will probably be smartphones that dock and become laptops. There are already some options but very limited.
We need a breakthrough in batteries and ARM chips to speed up a bit more to make this really work.
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That's NOT news (Score:2)
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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.
Warning: orange guy mention (Score:1)
Corporate Trumpism is rampant. (Wait, that's redundant.)
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