“A fire broke out in the stockroom of a Samsung store in Singapore [on Tuesday],” Kate Samuelson reports for Fortune.
“The small fire at the Samsung Experience Store in the AMK Hub shopping mall shut down the shop and affected a few other businesses nearby, according to Channel News Asia,” Samuelson reports. “Even though the fire was contained quickly, surrounding stores in the mall were forced to temporarily close for safety reasons.”
Samuelson reports, “Samsung did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment, but released a statement to Channel News Asia. ‘We are currently assessing the property damage and working closely with the authorities to determine the cause of the fire. The store will remain temporarily closed during this period. We sincerely regret any inconvenience caused.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, what the heck could have sparked a fire at a Samsung store?
It’s baffling.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “boecherer” for the heads up.]
Are new SamSplode Galaxy 8’s already in store stock?
“Attention Shoppers: Please have your mobile fire extinguishers on hand when purchasing a new Galaxy 8. That is all.”
Might be Samsplode’s battery. But it’s not like we know the root cause and Apple itself had had reported fires too (and likely many that go unreported).
Apple fire:
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cultofmac.com/323919/fire-breaks-out-at-apples-arizona-command-center/amp/
Fortunately the battery debacle is uniquely SamSplodes to own since they designed failure in. In Apple’s case I suspect the rare incident also involves abuse of the device.
In other news it seems like another executive was Fire-d in the executive suite …
A Samsung Fire…..seems so appropriate! These guys are worse than Google…but their OS sure fits with them!
How do people buy this crap??
Soon the words “Samsung” & “fire” will be interchangeable like “photocopy” & “Xerox”.
So go build a nice campSamsung and roast some poor wienie!
Though they tend to copy a lot, they should be given some credit for also innovating quite a bit. Two examples would be the convex minuscus front glass design from the Galaxy S3 series that Apple seems to have taken a liking to recently. And Samsung Pay which goes beyond NFC by also having a magnetic chip allowing use of magnetic card readers on card readers excepting ATMs. Samsung Pay also has an incentive plan independent of the credit card issuers where use will give you points towards various awards. Hopefully Apple will follow suit with the incentive part soon in Apple Pay.
Too bad for Samsung that Amazon already markets devices under the name “Fire.”
Anybody need a new “burner phone”?
They could call it the Samsung “On Fire” S8
More descriptively would be “SpitFire”
They could use Pyro. 🖖😀
Spark, Inferno, Flame, Flambé, Igniter, Smoked, Combust, Pocket Pyro, Kaboomer, Cheapskate’s Surprise, Torch, Scorch, Friedtronix, Overheater, Splodex, Burstex, Plosion, Blaze ‘O Glory, Detonator and the Suicider I believe are all still available.
I think we now know how Samsung is unloading all those Note 7s. Mall kiosks.
Oh, the humanity!!!
They should take Note of this incident and make sure it’s no where near the Galaxy of possibility in the future.
LOL
I just watched a Samsung commercial yesterday which was touting their 8-point battery check. Such platitudes.
Quality is a priority, well, until they all burst into flame like dominoes taking clueless casualties with them that is. Eh heh.
Oh, that’s sickening isn’t it? “The safety of our customers is our priority”, my eye.
It certainly wasn’t before all these fires — but their advertising agency says it is now, so that’s alright? Unbelievable.
Samdung were recklessly cutting corners and cutting costs and there’s the rub.
They’re so desperate to turn market share into revenue, they’ll do anything to get out of their problems.
Even corruption and bribery. Very sad. On the other hand, they did have some sharp business lessons coming to them (karma is still a b!@tch), and we get some schadenfreude glee out of their misfortunes.
With their boss in jail, how long can their phones division survive?
Too funny!!
I wonder if it was a refrigerator or toaster oven or something. Heard they’re working on a new oscillating fan with four speeds. Gonna be so sick!