So the battery is the scapegoat. Samsung is dead to me.

Well the problem is Samsung not the battery.

This is getting ridiculous! What's next?

Their reputation is unrepairable as far as I'm concerned.

Yep, this makes sense. They put the battery under very tight squeeze thanks to their obsession with the curves and thinness.

Surely the end of the Note line. It ended for me with the Note 5.
https://plus.google.com/+AmirudinRidwan/posts/2FJDUsJDJw6

They could recoup some losses by having a fire sale. 

The first sensible thing they've done since all this started.

Oh just withdraw the model completely already, stupid overpriced piece of junk! 

That's the mark of incompetence, callousness and disrespect.