<story><title>Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing</title><url>https://ifixit.org/blog/16025/galaxy-fold-failure-causes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lemoncucumber</author><text>Samsung has a history of shipping crappy products just for the sake of being the first to do it. Their product line has always been a sprawling mess of overly-specialized niche products. It seems like they have a strategy of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.</text></item><item><author>stupidcar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m more interested in how Samsung ever got so far down the road with a such an apparently flawed design. Samsung&amp;#x27;s engineers must have known it had big problems. Was this a classic case of dysfunctional corporate culture meaning nobody wanted to give the bosses bad news? I&amp;#x27;m guessing so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinay427</author><text>Well, thankfully they do also ship many products that are the first to do something useful, so as a normal consumer that isn&amp;#x27;t a first-adopter for most things I appreciate that they create a market for many random innovations.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing</title><url>https://ifixit.org/blog/16025/galaxy-fold-failure-causes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lemoncucumber</author><text>Samsung has a history of shipping crappy products just for the sake of being the first to do it. Their product line has always been a sprawling mess of overly-specialized niche products. It seems like they have a strategy of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.</text></item><item><author>stupidcar</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m more interested in how Samsung ever got so far down the road with a such an apparently flawed design. Samsung&amp;#x27;s engineers must have known it had big problems. Was this a classic case of dysfunctional corporate culture meaning nobody wanted to give the bosses bad news? I&amp;#x27;m guessing so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradknowles</author><text>Samsung has a history of squirting out over fifty new phone models each year, hoping that a production rate in excess of 1.0 per week will be sufficient to cause at least one of those 50+ models to stick.&lt;p&gt;At least, they hope it will stick for a little while, long enough for them to find the next random thing that will stick for a little while.</text></comment>