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Wouldn't want to be working in that division right now. I'm assuming they'll try to sprint asap to a follow-up or a replacement. The longer they wait, the more they lose to other vendors I am assuming. And the bad publicity must be causing quite a headache as well.

Nevertheless, their other phones have been good (and I'm assuming that apart from catching fire this one was as well, though catching fire is a pretty big downside).

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Sprint to a replacement? To basically do the same mistake twice (or thrice if you will)? My bet is that they'll retreat and introduce the basic concept in/as another brand next year.

Couldn't they replace the defective design from their other product lines? What is the actual root cause, battery or controlling electronics?

Officially, no one knows, though there are theories. Samsung has said they are investigating it.

Perhaps they ended up with this problem precisely because they rushed?

They did rush - they launched Note 7 a year ahead of its time (last year we had Note 5) when they were only supposed to release Note 6. That takes, dare I say, courage. (just a joke, they just skipped the number 6 to put it in line with the Galaxy S generation).

It's more likely that they named it 7 to put it as a direct competitor to the iPhone 7 Plus.

They named it 7 so it would line up with the S7.

In the same way that Windows 10 was rushed to be a year early because they 'skipped' Windows 9?

Pretty sure that one was to avoid a Windows Nein. (They are still striving for a Windows?Nein! situation given the FUBAR Anniversary Edition, albeit "by any other name")

I think it was so users wouldn't follow "Windows 9x" tutorials thinking they would still work.

I think it was actually for the software that was doing that:

    	if (osName.startsWith("windows 9"))

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397664

I know - I was trying to use sarcasm to point how how marketing names don't really mean much in terms of product development and doesn't indicate anything here was rushed out the door.