{"id":521,"date":"2016-05-21T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=521"},"modified":"2016-05-21T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T12:26:17","slug":"samsung-galaxy-note-7-explosion-iphone-apple-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Samsung Note 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>riends, millennials, Snapchatters, please lend me your abnormally short attention spans. I come to bury Samsung Galaxy Note 7, so keep the fire extinguishers ready.\n\nYou were a splendid beauty, thin <em>and<\/em> curvaceous, the very embodiment of attractiveness in 2016. You had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjT64WB1dTPAhUIRo8KHeKtCuEQFggbMAA&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEdgeTM-Ultimate-Staying-Power-Desensitizing%2Fdp%2FB00W6UXTFK&#038;usg=AFQjCNFXAIXxT77l4GNVQk6bLp01z81Glg&#038;sig2=MXSdJiZ8W4H3GiOaKsrh3g&#038;bvm=bv.135475266,d.c2I\">Edge\u2122<\/a> unlike any we\u2019ve seen before, and the capacity to go all day long. You were the tech equivalent of Kim Kardashian. Oh, Note 7, you were the Apple of our eye. You were meant to lead us away from the straight-edged world. You were not perfect by any stretch of imagination, but we grew fond of your unmanicured loveliness, your rubbish software quirks, and your attempts to clone FaceTime. We even moved past your, umm, obvious tagline, \u201cDesigned for Humans\u201d. We forgave your wherever-you-look-we\u2019ll-be-watching-you advertising blitzkrieg.\n\nI spent nearly three months\u2019 salary trying to get my hands on you. But that was fine. It felt good because your AMOLED screen was brighter than my future. It left me wishing that Samsung also manufactured jeans with pockets large enough to accommodate my Note 7, but that\u2019s a minor quibble. For Samsung is an honourable company.\n\nYou had finally started gathering steam; you had out-famed the iPhone and were considered a serious contender. Your younger sibling, the S7 Edge (Kylie Jenner), also became quite a celebrity on the back of your popularity. Even famed rapper Tyga played with it.\n\nAlas, the higher you go, the harder you fall. Your greatest strength also robbed you of your life. And now Samsung has sent us three boxes and a pair of safety gloves to tuck you in. I loved you, but seriously where is the fire brigade?\n\nWhere do we go from here? In a world of smartphone fragmentation, Apple and Google want us to trade in our phones year after year for an extra half inch (hope our girlfriends don\u2019t do the same). Do we keep going crazy as our favourite jack struggles to find a hole? All I know is if that \u201cOMG it was like so hot\u201d chick from Bombay \u2013 who stood for five hours in a queue \u2013 had to give up a kidney for an iPhone 7, I might as well get ready to use the phone with the soles of my feet. Also, will it be worth it? *insert iPhone 7 joke here. It\u2019s only a marginal improvement over the iPhone 6 joke.*\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>It was a mistake, they said. We will replace the phones, they said. And Samsung is an honourable company.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nMore importantly, what about the new world order? After years of evolution, human beings had finally discovered the most efficient way to judge each other\u2019s value: Smartphones. With Samsung\u2019s biggest phone gone, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.\n\nI can already feel it in the air \u2013 iPhone users around me are gloating, growing even more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/why-appelism-must-die\/\" target=\"_blank\">insufferable<\/a> by the minute. I can just imagine the launch of iPhone 8. Tim Cook will walk on to the stage wearing a smirk and play a really fast video just showing the phone charging. \u201cThe new iPhone 8. It takes about 16 hours to charge but it doesn\u2019t explode. Best.iPhone.Ever.\u201d\n\nGoogle Pixel might step into the shoes the Note 7 has vacated. At its price though, Android geeks will now legitimately behave more like iPhone nuts. As for the other contenders, Sony, HTC, and LG, might crawl out from the deep freeze&#8230; The possibilities are endless. Well, except for those using Windows phones. That\u2019s a bunch of Sirious no-hopers.\n\nBut it\u2019s our lot to look for silver linings, even when there aren\u2019t any. The Note 7 saga at least injected some fresh energy into the tech-media industry. Think about those poor sods having to unbox one phone after another, with marginal or inconsequential tweaks here and there, greeted with bewildering, soul-sucking sameness day after day. The biggest news in the last few months has been the loss of a headphone jack on a device, which caused the world to lose its marbles. Now think about a reputed company pulling a phone off the market for actual safety reasons \u2013because their engineers cannot figure out what is up with the phones. If this doesn\u2019t grant us some perspective, what will?\n\nAnd we have Samsung to thank for this. For producing a phone so lit. Just wish they hadn\u2019t made it water resistant if it could catch fire. It was a mistake, they said. We will replace the phones, they said. And Samsung is an honourable company.\n\nAnd now our beloved Note 7 is gone. Our hearts are still in those fireproof boxes they sent to bury the phone in. And we must go offline until they come back to us.\n\nThe Samsung Note 7 is dead. Let\u2019s all cry our i\u2019s out.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farewell, dear smartphone. 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