Here’s How Google’s Pixel Can Benefit From Samsung’s Reputation Loss

As Samsung’s engineers worked overtime to identify the cause behind its exploding Note 7 smartphones, their inability to replicate the explosions in a controlled environment led to the scrapping of the model. Samsung’s announcement that it would stop production of the Galaxy Note 7 could not have come at a better time for Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL) subsidiary Google. Its newly launched smartphone “Pixel” just lost a major competitor. (Read What Does Google Aim To Accomplish With The Pixel?). Furthermore, a recent survey revealed that 40% of Samsung smartphone owners (of the survey population of 1,000) would not buy another device from the manufacturers, after the recent Note 7 fiasco, impacting its reputation negatively. While Pixel lacks a standout hardware feature that can differentiate it from rival devices and excite customers, Samsung’s reputation loss can lead to consumers flocking towards the “safer” and faster Pixel. We believe that, since the launch of Pixel coincides with the end of Samsung’s Note 7, Google can get a head start in the smartphone market and gain market share from Samsung.

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German Government Asks Tesla To Rename “Autopilot,” And Drivers To Read Their Owner’s Manual

The German government took the highly unusual step of notifying some 2,500 Tesla drivers in the country that the “Autopilot” cannot make their car drive autonomously. The Federal Motor Authority told Tesla owners in a letter that the Autopilot function is purely a driver assistance system and not a highly-automated vehicle that can be operated without the driver’s constant attention, Reuters reports.  Probably more painfully for the Californian carmaker “Tesla has been asked to find a new name for the system,” writes the mass-circulation BILD Zeitung.

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