“After two days of intense public interest, iFixit has removed our teardown of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold,” iFixit writes. “That analysis supported our suspicions that the device provided insufficient protection from debris damaging the screen.”
“We were provided our Galaxy Fold unit by a trusted partner. Samsung has requested, through that partner, that iFixit remove its teardown,” iFixit writes. “We are under no obligation to remove our analysis, legal or otherwise. But out of respect for this partner, whom we consider an ally in making devices more repairable, we are choosing to withdraw our story until we can purchase a Galaxy Fold at retail.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Beleaguered Samsung’s quixotic attempts at damage control are actually damage contagion.
The screen on my Galaxy Fold review unit is completely broken and unusable just two days in. Hard to know if this is widespread or not. pic.twitter.com/G0OHj3DQHw
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) April 17, 2019
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Beleaguered Samsung delays Galaxy Fold launch after test units break – April 22, 2019
Beleaguered Samsung postpones Galaxy Fold media events – April 22, 2019
Hey, Samsung, what’s the point of being first, if you can’t be good? – April 19, 2019
Samsung Galaxy Fold display failures raise specter of Note 7 fiasco – April 18, 2019
CNBC reviews Samsung Galaxy Fold: Completely unusable after just two days of use – April 17, 2019
The Verge reviews Samsung Galaxy Fold: Screen broke after just a day – April 17, 2019
Samsung Galaxy Fold display issues emerge immediately – April 17, 2019
Ugly wrinkle for Samsung: Galaxy Fold sports a nasty crease running down the middle of the display – March 21, 2019
absolute joke – March 14, 2019
Apple’s glass supplier says it’ll be ready for real, durable foldable iPhones within ‘a couple of years’ – March 5, 2019
Apple patent application reveals foldable iPhone with self-heating display, lock-out mechanism to protect against cold weather damage – February 28, 2019
If Apple does a foldable iPhone, then folding phones will have been done right – February 28, 2019
Airpower failure to launch doesn’t seem quite so bad now…
That’s some weak-@ss sh#t, @iFixit! Samsung should eat this clusterfluge and that teardown should remain posted. So much for their corp autonomy. So when a company applies a little bit of pressure iFixit folds like a cheap lawnchair!
Actually, they fold like a cheap Galaxy Fold
Meh, for the sake of the relationship, they chose to remove the analysis of a product that’s unreleased and whose release has been postponed.
Everybody’s above-board here — their notice of removal includes their basic conclusion that there is a flaw in the device, so I’m fine with it. When/if it ships, they can post both versions if they like and it will demonstrate how Samsung fixed or didn’t fix it.
No good going to the mattresses, breaking the relationship for a non-existent product.
Their decision to remove the tear down information isn’t folding, it’s respecting their relationship. It wasn’t their unit to begin with. In removing it, they maintain the ability to still use that resource in the future and that’s a win for us consumers. As noted by another commenter, they did not remove the analysis of the tear down.
I am waiting for the tear down of the Samsung model where the screen cracks.. and it catches fire.
And yet people will continue to buy Samsung garbage….
This is hilarious, Samsung’s request has likely caused more bad publicity in this hilarious — help us hide the truth – move.
Prediction: The Fold will never ship.
“Respect?”…for that copyist? Come on! Could it be fear? But what is that possible fear for? IFixit’s surrender does not make sense except to give more publicity to the fold. So maybe it’s to increase bad publicity otherwise iFixIt would have refrained from announcing it. If true, iFixit sounds a bit vindictive, no?
Your response is full of conjecture. Why don’t you fuck off and shove a paint brush up your…
That’s some weak-@ss sh#t, @iFixit! Samsung should eat this clusterfluge and that teardown should remain posted. So much for their corp autonomy. So when a company applies a little bit of pressure iFixit folds like a cheap lawnchair!
I head read somewhere that iFixit blamed dust or something in the premature screen fails, which seems odd, since they lasted at most 48 hours after receiving them as new before it failed. If this is true, dust during manufacture, shipping, testers using them for dust rag holders?