Samsung Rising

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P.M., https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1118574467255418880?lang=en.

“My Galaxy fold screen broke”: Dieter Bohn, “My Samsung Galaxy Fold Screen
Broke After Just a Day,” The Verge, April 17, 2019,
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18411510/samsung-galaxy-fold-broken-
screen-debris-dust-hinge-flexible-bulge.


“Now [the Galaxy Fold] is turning into”: Chris Fox, “Samsung Galaxy Fold: Broken
Screens Delay Launch,” BBC, April 22, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/
technology-48013395.
Samsung attributed some of the malfunctions: Chaim Gartenberg and Dieter Bohn,
“Samsung Responds to Galaxy Fold Screen Damage: ‘We Will Thoroughly
Inspect These Units,’ ” The Verge, April 17, 2019, https://www.theverge.com/
2019/4/17/18412572/samsung-galaxy-fold-screen-damage-statement-inspect-
screen-protector.


But CNBC’s Steve Kovach: Hudson Hongo, “Look at All These Fucked Up Galaxy
Folds,” Gizmodo, April 17, 2019, https://gizmodo.com/look-at-all-these-
fucked-up-galaxy-folds-1834118147.
On April 22, four days before: Chris Welch, “Samsung Delays Galaxy Fold
Indefinitely: ‘We Will Take Measures to Strengthen the Display,’ ” The Verge,
April 22, 2019, https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18511170/samsung-
galaxy-fold-delay-indefinitely-statement-screen-display-broken-issues.


“It was embarrassing”: Cuthberson, “Galaxy Fold: Inside Samsung’s Struggle to
Deliver a Foldable Phone—and Why the Future of Smartphones Hinges on
It.”


She attributed part of the failure: Ibid.
One week later, Samsung’s profits plummeted: Ju-min Park, “Samsung Electronics
First-Quarter Profit Falls 60% On-Year as Weak Chip Prices Bite,” Reuters,
April 29, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-electronics-first-
quarter-profit-falls-60-on-year-as-weak-chip-prices-bite-2019-4.


Samsung announced a new expansion: “ ‘Creative Ecosystems’ Is Key to Non-
Memory Chip Business,” Dong-A Ilbo, April 25, 2019,
http://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20190425/1711196/1/Creative-
ecosystems-is-key-to-non-memory-chip-business.
“The government will actively support”: Park Tae-hee, “Who Triggered the Chip
Crisis?” Korea JoongAng Daily, July 16, 2019,
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3065513.
“Some experts think that Samsung’s”: Song Gyung-hwa, “[News analysis] Lee Jae-
yong’s Disturbing Display of Confidence Ahead of Supreme Court Ruling,”
Hankyoreh.


The audience stood up: “[Full Video] ‘Influence-Peddling Scandal’ Supreme Court
Sentencing,” YTN, August 29, 2019, https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/
0301_201908291453019091_001. The source is in Korean. The author’s

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