{"id":9141,"date":"2019-07-02T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2019-07-02T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:47:34","slug":"samsungs-ceo-admits-the-galaxy-fold-was-rushed-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/samsungs-ceo-admits-the-galaxy-fold-was-rushed-to-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s CEO admits the Galaxy Fold was rushed to market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I pushed [the Galaxy Fold] through before it was ready.\u201d\u00a0said Samsung CEO, DJ Koh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9142\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124513\/source-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No shit.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Fold being a giant white-elephant Koh goes on to explain in the Independent article that the Fold most definitely has <em>not<\/em> been shelved and is expected to make a return.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung rushing products to market is nothing new. The ill-fated Note 7, which famously started exploding due to ill-quipped battery tests, one of their largest.<\/p>\n<p>The Fold is by no means exploding but it was a woefully poor product. Most review units broke within days and cheap coating on the phone&#8217;s flagship foldable display was often removed because it looked so poor.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/features\/samsung-galaxy-fold-foldable-phone-release-date-when-explained-a8980056.html\">Galaxy Fold: Inside Samsung\u2019s struggle to deliver a foldable phone \u2013 and why the future of smartphones hinges on it | The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; &#8220;I pushed [the Galaxy Fold] through before it was ready.\u201d\u00a0said Samsung CEO, DJ Koh. No shit. Despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1443,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9144,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}