Currently, discussions about the Note 7 have mostly died down, and the jokes are getting old at this point. It’s likely that people will remember this incident for a long time, but on the other hand, it probably won’t affect buying decisions too far into the future.
In fact, some experts are predicting that Samsung are going to have no issues with their presence on the market as soon as 2017, and the company has already been putting some effort into improving their brand name in the eyes of people. There’s still a lot that can be done, arguably, but at least they’re moving in the right direction.
In the end, no matter what Samsung choose to do next, the announcement of the Galaxy Note 8 will be a critical event for the company, and they should definitely prepare for it in every aspect they can think of.
This release will make or break Samsung’s future, and even though the Galaxy Note 7 was not enough to bury them, things could easily change with another failed launch like that. With that in mind, we suspect that Samsung might be preparing quite hard for this event, much more than they have in the past. Recent announcements about workforce reductions in the company imply that the device will be handled by different people this time too, so it would be interesting to see the final result.