The Galaxy Note 7 was widely touted to be the best smartphone of the year but its release has been marred by several cases of batteries exploding and causing fires.
Samsung had to recall thousands of devices and subsequently, discontinue the line.
The internet has since been awash with memes making fun of the Korean tech giants. But even they would not have imagined that US president Barack Obama would troll them for their misfortune.
While the outgoing American president was speaking on his healthcare policy; Obamacare, he used smartphones as a metaphor for upgrading what doesn’t work instead of throwing it away; except it catches fire.
‘Think about it: when one of these companies comes out with a new smartphone and it has a few bugs, what do they do? They fix it. They upgrade it… Unless it catches fire and then they just, then they pull it off the market.’
Although he didn’t have to mention the brand, but there’s only one exploding smartphone on the market.
