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I am sure all of those people with broken phones are appreciative of how "bold" Samsung has been in releasing this phone early.

Personally I prefer the Apple approach with new products e.g. iPhone, iPad, Watch which is to have largely perfected the hardware before shipping but release it with MVP software which they aggressively improve.

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Except for the MacBook Pro version whose logic board failed, and the iBooks who plastic cases cracked and peeled.

About half of Apple products have serious hardware design flaws.

Oddly, the A1226 next to me has been my daily driver for 3-4 years, and prior to that used since it's inception as a daily driver for someone else.

It's probably one of the few remaining ones that just keep humming along.

"Just some percentage" "a small number" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kifBYFXU7X0

Your single datapoint is a great proof of reliability :)

Imagine just how incredibly reliable Samsungs are considering the fact I still have a single running S1!

You mean like that time the iPhone lost a significant amount of signal when you held it to make a call? Or how the vast majority of Apple computers struggled with heat related issues until the past 5ish years?

Don't forget the worst heat issue the MBP dealt with[1]. If you can't even hit your base clock at idle, someone really didn't bother with QA.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8J125s4cg

That was a software issue which they patched soon after. Dave Lee did re-review the unit after the patch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTguywiC9aw

I had the iPhone 4. The antenna was a non issue.

Maybe for you, but enough people experienced it for a class action settlement:

http://www.iphone4settlement.com/

Enough class-action lawyers became aware of it.

Dnt frget th Mac kyboar.

The whole AntennaGate was overblown. Apple continued selling the same unmodified GSM iPhone for four years with little controversy after the first four to six months.

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