A prime example of focusing on the negatives?Focusing on the negatives would be looking at the fact that Samsung's heir to the throne was accused of bribery and embezzlement and was arrested, or how their Galaxy S3 battery problems spilled into the S4, or how China's Central television showed a thirty-minute video about Samsung's faulty batteries, or how they were fined by Taiwan for false reviews, or how they were fined yet again by Taiwan for misleading advertisement. That would be things that would actually affect your trust with Samsung as a company, but instead I was staying on topic and bringing back the topic to the Note 8, not focusing on the negatives. And the fact that this isn't Samsung's first rodeo is exactly the point. They've been making phones for years and years, but they mess up the battery on their most expensive phone at the time, their flagship phone. If Apple did that with the iPhone 8, 1 Infinite Loop would be burned to the ground and Tim Cook beheaded on the White House lawn (may be exaggerating a bit for effect, but close enough).
As for your claims of their track record being "too good," think again my friend.
http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/n...y-red-discolouration-some-users-claim-1682769
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article163495878.html
https://www.google.com/amp/thedroid...ps-showing-incorrect-level-issues-1069443/amp
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2016/samsung-recalls-top-load-washing-machines
http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+to...ts+Over+Mass+LCD+TV+Failures/article24065.htm
Anyway, I'm not focusing on the negatives, I'm focusing on the future of Apple's greatest U.S. competitor. Remember, the point of his thread is about using Samsung's past to make observations for their future. Observing past mistakes to make comments about the future isn't focusing on negatives, it's something humans have been doing for all of history. It's called history.