Samsung should cut its losses by amputating the Note 7

This summer, Samsung suffered the worst calamity that could befall the manufacturer of a mass market device with millions of shipments: a hardware defect serious enough to force the recall of all Galaxy Note 7 handsets. This summer. It was August when rumors of exploding Galaxy Notes started spreading and early September when Samsung reacted, but here we are a week into October and the drama still hasn’t subsided. What was originally a misfortune has turned into Samsung’s own self-ha