What?
The Note is definitely one of the few Samsung devices with actually innovative features and it's commonly seen among professional settings due to its stylus and productivity-oriented apps. The response towards the Note 5 may have been negative, but there's still a market to cater. Ignoring it for an entire generation will be considerably more costly.
i think you two mean the same thing.
With the S6 and S6Edge before that, Samsung moved away from what many people considered strong points of the Samsung line-up, namely: replaceable batteries and microSD extension slots for the sake of making more premium looking devices that compromise on said features. (i.e. trying to make them more like iPhones)
People dreaded them to do the same thing to the Note family, which they now did, hence the somewhat negative response.
The Note 5 should have been an evolution of the Note 4 - gaining features, not losing them.
I think Samsung failed to realize that people didn't just like the Note series for the large screen alone, but also because it's a productivity power-house. And people who use their phablets as a productivity machine
love to be able to swap their batteries or use an SD card as storage extension or even means of data transfer.
I think, in general, Samsung have no idea of what made their S2 to S4 series of phones sell so well and why the S5 didn't. And they have no real explanation for the Note's success either. - they can't pinpoint what
exactly made these phones so well liked.
Why they're not shipping the Note 5 in Europe, i seriously don't know. Maybe European sales numbers for the Note line aren't all that great and they'd like to somewhat be able to focus their marketing on a limited number of flagship devices, seeing as the S6 family didn't sell all too well.
