Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance

Samsung Electronics has issued an apology to customers, investors and employees after releasing disappointing preliminary results Tuesday. "The performance that fell short of market expectations has raised concerns about the fundamental technological competitiveness and the future of the company," wrote vice chairman Jeon …

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"an apology to customers"?

I prefer the manufacturers of my consumer electronics to have low margins. That way I know the value's in my pocket and not some shareholder's.

[Anonymous Coward]

> low margins

Would not someone think of lost jobs?

[An_Old_Dog]

Design Choices

Samsung is a diversified business, but based on their home appliance design choices, I would not buy one from them. Housesitting for some friends, I found I could not use the Samsung stove/oven's oven, because it had only keypad/computer controls -- which had failed (error code "C-F2"). The burners still worked, because they had manually-activated dials.

MY oven was installed in the 1970s, and still works fine. It has a simple mechanical timer. If the built-in timer fails, I can use my simple, wind-up kitchen timer, and turn the oven on and off myself, and cook my meal.

I hate systems in which the slightest failure DoSes you out of major functionality.

[PCScreenOnly]

Re: Design Choices

Whereas we went with them specifically for that reason (design)

A double oven that has a split door so it can work as two single ovens, a microwave combo that looks the same, but besides a microwave has oven (Inc fan) and grill

I do get the sentiment with many new products Vs older ones

[Anonymous Coward]

Nowadays I am intentionally buying devices without connectivity, especially if getting them from China. My hope is they could not be bricked, used for spying, or be set on fire via Wi-Fi.

(Nothing personal about good or hard working people of China, just geopolitics and reading El Reg).

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Re: Design Choices

A few years back, I had a company-issued Samsung mobile phone which refused to hard delete the Facebook app. This set my policy on buying Samsung products.

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Re: Design Choices

You can't delete pre-installed apps on any make of android phone, but the customised ui on some might pretend it has.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Design Choices

Strange how my Fairphone didn't come with the Facebook app...