Samsung finally put the Note7 scandal to rest—here's what it could do for their future

We may never know why Samsung’s battery manufacturing partners made a handful of critical errors that led dozens of (the once widely-praised) Galaxy Note7 smartphones to overheat, and/or burst into flames. 

We also won’t know exactly why most of the 3 million Note7’s that were sold didn’t blow up or catch fire while dozens of others did. The flaws were there, but they obviously needed some other X-factor to trigger the fault. 

Think of it this way: If you build two walls, and one's at full thickness and the other's paper-thin, both create a physical barrier you can’t see through. However, if you lean on the paper wall, you’re gonna break through.  Read more...