Samsung grossly overreacted, and if you are to look at latest headlines many are asking if Samsung itself created a crisis that was bigger than it needed to be due to its rushed, poorly thought out approach. They should have just halted sales and gone full steam ahead with finding the fault, then replaced the phone once they're confident that they isolated the problem. Instead they acted in a knee-jerk fashion and pulled the device from the market entirely. I have people begging me to sell them my Note 7 and I cannot do it because of the ridiculous situation that Samsung created. At the same time Samsung is so disorganized and mismanaged that they cannot even agree to replace my Note 7 while at the same time their executives are coming out and saying that they want to get 100% of the Note phones out of the market. Oh and yeah, they still haven't been able to reproduce even a single explosion despite being at it for nearly a month now. Go figure. This whole situation reeks of a perfect storm of mistakes.
For what it's worth, I'm going to hang on to the Note 7 as long as I can and continue to push Samsung to give me an equivalent replacement. I will also continue to watch the reports about what caused the fires. If Samsung comes out saying that it is caused by a specific set of circumstances, ones that would not affect my device, my Note 7 will go back to being my primary phone.