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Posted on 01/31/2011 4:02:49 PM PST by Swordmaker
Despite crowing about shipping 2 million Galaxy Tabs, Samsung is now admitting that it's not selling very many of the seven-inch tablets.
On the earnings call with analysts, Samsung VP Lee Young-hee said sales were "quite small."
The Wall Street Journal has a transcript. Lee talks about sell-in, meaning shipments and sell-out, meaning sales to consumers.
Lee doesn't quantify what "quite small" means, but it sure doesn't sound good.
Here's the snippet:
“Well, your question was on sell-in and sell-out. As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite small. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.”
Bottom line here: As expected, the only viable threat to the iPad on the market today has hardly made a dent.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I think I’ve seen one commercial but it may have just been a video on the internet.
I messed around with one a while back. I wasn’t at all impressed, compared to the iPad. What’s ironic is while I was handling them both to compare, the Galaxy slipped out of my hand and hit the display on my iPad. lol (luckily it didn’t damage it at all)
As a resident hater of Apple (though an iPad owner ;-) ), I am actually happy to see this news. Why?
1> These stupid Samsung pads are rather silly. A 7” display is quite stupid. It is too large to comfortably carry, but too small for tasks you may want to perform on a tablet. I see a lot of companies are going the 7” route (including Apple from what I saw) ... why they do this is beyond me. I know it can help with costs, but still ...
2> Apple deserves to get as much tablet market share as possible for the iPad ... they took a lot of risk releasing the iPad. I am not saying that other companies shouldn’t try to enter (or re-enter) the tablet market ... I’m just of the opinion that the forerunner should reap as much reward as possible :-).
If the next iPad would add “real” handwriting capabilities, I’d be in happy. If I could install Android instead ... that’d be pure bliss (ok, running for cover there :-) ... ).
IMHO, they priced themselves out. When you hit the $500 price point, you are going up against the iPad or a decent entry level laptop. They should have been priced in the netbook range and gone for volume versus margin.
The MID816 has similar specs to the Galaxy Tab and costs less than $250. The Viewsonic G has the faster Tegra2 and costs around $400. The Motorola Xoom is coming out soon. End of Feb? Super Bowl commercial released.
Here are some links
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/751872/motorola_xoom_vs_apple_ipad_2.html
We recently compared the Motorola XOOM with the original iPad and the XOOM emerged victorious.
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/752209/android_overtakes_symbian_as_worlds_number_one_os.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2378980,00.asp
Noodled around with one or two Galaxies over the weekend.
I like the little “vibration” it makes when you select an icon.
Other than that, I’m still not very familiar with tablet computers. < |:(~
It is typically liberal ideology that attempts to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. Do you buy your MacBook from a carrier? Your netbook? Your laptop? Your desktop? Why on earth would you contemplate buying your tablet from them?
Worse, carrier supported tablets are contrary to present trends. Why would I want to spend $30-$50 a month for network access for my tablet? If there’s not a wifi signal nearby, I turn one on from my phone.
If the world measured the success of netbooks from carrier sales, they would have laughed at the abysmal sales and said no one would ever buy one. Yet every coffee shop is filled with them. Besides, I already bought my tablet, a Nook Color, and likely I’ll have a fully functional version of Honeycomb before the first retail tablet featuring it can be purchased by an end user.
Beyond all this, the constant and frustrating experience retail users have with phone updates being delayed and not coming out in a timely basis further supports the idea that people would greatly shy away from carrier sponsored tablets. Samsung still hasn’t given a firm date for updating to the Gingerbread version of android. Luckily for those suckered into two years of owning a Galaxy Tab, CM7 is available. And Cyanogen has already committed to bringing Honeycomb to the tablets.
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I purchased a Galaxy Tab for my wife for Christmas.
It works well. The house wireless is getting more
use now.
Many years ago, IBM crowed about the number
of units of OS/2 shipped. An industry source
correctly observed that, “shipped ain’t sold”
We both have a Droid phone. The Tab is just a
larger variant with better wireless. Zero learning
curve.
The XOOM is not even a shipping or even a manufactured product yet... it was presented at CES as a mock-up and a video of PROSPECTIVE use using a yet to be released OS. The hardware hasn't even been released to golden master yet for manufacturing as far as I've heard. That's kind of hard to compare a proposed hot air product to an existing, shipping product that's been on the market for NINE MONTHS. Get back to us when XOOM finally ships... or provides one for a REAL review.
I have an iPad. It was a freebie, I’ve been using it for awhile and so far, I’m not very impressed. For mobile uses, the phone is handier, for stationary use, a laptop works better.
That being said, the Samsung Tab doesn’t even have the glamor of being from Apple, I’m not surprised they are not selling.
Were I to buy one, I would get it from overseas. Not the crippled US market offering.
Well, good luck on getting the carriers to let you hook it up... They are the ones that are now in the catbird seat since Google allowed them to steal back the control that Apple had negotiated away from them with the iPhone. You will see more and more of this with Android. Crapplets and other custom user interfaces fragmenting Android is what is happening more and more because they and the manufacturers can do it to differentiate their products.
Shipped two million, sold a small fraction of ‘em — I have seen the thing, but it beats me where. Probably the Big Box store.
Too expensive. I purchased a Ipad wifi unit and use it on the SPRINT NETWORK with my 4G overdrive device.
They've been advertising on network TV lately...
Knowyourmobile is not comparing tablets. In one article, they’re comparing the iPad and Xoom spec sheets; in the other, they’re comparing the Xoom spec sheet with iPad runoff.
The main reason being the cheap resistive display and small, low-life battery. I'm sure the cheap construction and lack of engineering in the case helped control costs. Good luck getting support too. You get what you pay for.
The Viewsonic G looks pretty good, if you blow away the included OS and falsh your own. So for right now it's a geek toy, not ready for the consumer space.
We recently compared the Motorola XOOM with the original iPad and the XOOM emerged victorious.
In that article they compared the Xoom with the expected iPad 2 specs, and the iPad 2 won. They linked another article comparing the yet-to-be-released Xoom with the year-old iPad, and of course the Xoom won. I do notice battery life, an all-important killer feature in tablets, is absent in the comparisons. Any idea what the Xoom gets? In any case, I don't put much stock in highly speculative hardware mashups.
The Xoom does look like a very good product, but notice the price, right in the iPad's range. You don't get a quality tablet for $250.
And don’t forget future OS support. There are Android phones out there that ended official OS upgrade support rather quickly. Look at the Droid Eris, released in Nov 99 with Android 1.5, upgraded to 2.1 in May 2010 (7 months after 2.1 was released), and that’s it. No Froyo. It will never officially get the OS version that came out only six months after the phone’s release. The Motorola Devour is even worse. It came out in March 2010 with 1.6, and never got an upgrade beyond that.
Phone owners under contract should get upgrades throughout their 2-year contract lengths. These Android owners, and others, got screwed.
Contrast, only the original iPhone, last sold almost three years ago, can’t take the latest iOS. Compatibility of the current iOS version goes back to the iPhone 3G released in mid 2008.
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