John Olinda Isn't calling the issue with the Note 5 pen being inserted backwards a design flaw sort of like saying that putting your car into reverse instead of drive and damaging it is a design flaw?

Martijn The stylus of my Nintendo DS can only be inserted 1 way, the stylus on the old Ericsson PDA phones could only be inserted 1 way, so why would Samsung allow a pen to be inserted *any* way? Does sound like a design flaw to me. They have this back art on the pen that is supposed to look like a button, right? Making it just half a millimeter wider would have solved all of this.

John Olinda I see your point there, basically that it would have been easy to eliminate user error as a possibility, so why didn't they?

Martijn Yup. Apparently Samsung gave a public statement that came down to "RTFM"? If they felt a need to document how to insert the pen in a manual, why didn't anyone think of simplifying it so there would only be 1 way? The fact that things break isn't really the design flaw here, the fact that there are no physical hints to how to insert the pen is.