Early reviews suggested that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 would be one of the best smartphones of 2016. Unfortunately such claims were undermined by the tendency of its battery to catch fire on airplanes, prompting the company to launch a massive recall and replace programme. Worse still, the new certified-safe Note 7s proved to be anything but, burning up as before, prompting Samsung to ditch the phone entirely in October, at the cost of about $5bn.
As far as Public Relations nightmares go, this one comes in at number 5 according to a National Business review article, but it pales in comparison to the PR nightmare of a naked king rolling around talking nonsense in the streets. Yet that is exactly what we find happens on today’s podcast from 1 Samuel 19.
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