“News that Samsung has axed its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to safety concerns has sparked a wave of hilarious memes on social media,” Sarah Dean reports for The Daily Mail.
MacDailyNews Take: Get it? “Sparked.” (smirk)
“The decision to permanently discontinue the product, which was meant to be Samsung’s rival to Apple’s iPhone, is forecast to cost the company $17 billion in lost sales,” Dean reports. “Twitter user Stilgherrian posted a photo of a young girl in front of a house burning down with the caption: ‘Samsung shareholders meeting.'”
“Russian Market shared a gif of a man lighting his cigar from a fire in his lap, with the comment: ‘Reading Twitter on your Samsung phone,'” Dean reports. “Another image joked there would be a ‘fire sale’ with the offer of ‘buy one get 2.5 million free.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung’s irreparable brand damage is proof that, yes, there is a God. Maybe Steve’s whispering in His ear up there.
Burned by Samsung? Get a real iPhone.
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Seems to me SamSplode losing $17 billion goes way beyond any award Apple could have gotten from them for infringements. Who knew in the end Scamsham would be self-thermonuclearizing?
I don’t know if you can find a better example of karma meting out richly deserved justice.
It’s not the Samsung phone design! it’s the Android inside!
Is this you Martin?
Have seen 3 today and None of the students seemed in a hurry to do anything about it. 😐
Are those the students that always use the term “lit” when describing an explosive situation? FWIW you might want brush-up on how to use a fire retardant:
http://www.fire-extinguisher101.com/using.html
The first time those students try to take an airline flight, they’ll realise that they will have to throw those phones away before boarding the flight (or cancel the travel plans, if they are hell-bent on keeping their phones).
As for arrogance of the fandroid legion, this is well deserved. I’ll reluctantly use a word* the originated amongst the fandroid base…., seems all the Scamscum fan base is in the midst of a major butthurt* 😜
Apple is going to rename the 7 Plus the Schadenfreude.
Bare hands? Bad idea.
Indeed he has rather missed the point. Remember Samsung don’t make replacement hands.
Indeed! But it’s all for snarky fun.
In the original article, I _love_ the image of how to put the Samsung phone into airplane mode (a fireproof box), and the comment that it’s good this phone is water resistant, because that’s the only safe way to use it, underwater! Brilliant!
“Samsung’s irreparable brand damage is proof that, yes, there is a God. Maybe Steve’s whispering in His ear up there.”
I think Steve has engineered a coup and overthrown God. Steve is now in charge. He is going thermonuclear on Samsung the only way he could from beyond the grave.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/10/samsungs-preliminary-quarterly-profit-guidance-shows-false-profit-by-not-accounting-for-note7-recall-costs.html
‘Nuff said. 🖖😀⌚️
Found it!
^ Reading Twitter on your Samsung phone.