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Is this the same Samsung who is responsible for a series of extremely badly designed and buggy software?

Yes, and also the same Samsung who do fantastic upstream Linux kernel work for their SoCs, and who employ a whole bunch of Enlightenment developers, and according to Wikipedia about 369000 other people.

And the same Samsung with the camera driver that was /dev/mem with 0777.

Recently I was driving down the motorway with my window open and a woman in a passing car threw a Samsung phone straight in the window, for some reason! I was going to track her down and give it back but it kept locking up so I couldn't.

Most large companies produce lots of things of varying quality. It gets even murkier when those things are from acquired companies or from subcontractors (or sub-^n-contractors).

In my opinion software is actually much, much harder than hardware and there are only a few large organizations that do it well. Samsung is definitely not one of them. I don't expect their contributions to amount to much here but I'll be pleasantly surprised if they do.

I'd assume they're just contributing folk to work with Mozilla's group, though. Whether Samsung is "good" or "bad" at software won't really enter into it.

Yes my wife threw her galaxy ace out of the car window on the M1 the other day because of a persistent lock up bug.

However I've got a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and I'm rather happy with it.

you win some, you lose some.

Don't you have a garbage can at home?

That's pretty irresponsible.

Yes but:

a) we're not allowed to put phones in it due to the lithium content.

b) I doubt in the moment of anger at the piece of shit, taking it home and politely disposing of it would have the same mental satisfaction as smashing the bastard thing to bits on the motorway.

Irresponsible or not, humans aren't perfect unless they make condescending remarks on the internet.

It's easy to criticize from the couch, but throwing a phone from a car window is VERY irresponsible. I doubt that in the moment of anger she looked first to see if there was someone else on the road.

Being hit by a phone while riding a motorbike doesn't seem fun.

Throwing anything from a moving vehicle should lead to instant driving license annihilation. You make light of it but people get killed that way.

If you can't control your impulses to throw stuff out of your car in fits of rage then you don't belong on the road. It's a shared resource, and using it is conditional on your behaviour.

In my part of the UK they'll recycle phones if you put them in the recycling bin.

Did she by any chance happen to throw it into rikkus's car? The sibling comment here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5524101

Ha that's hilarious! This one hit the ground at 70mph and basically exploded to bits.

If I were Samsung, I'd effectively just augment the development with sponsorship of some specific hires.

They have most certainly been turning around. I know absolutely nothing about their software team (where they are, headcount, etc), but in the Android space they have accelerated dramatically.

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