“An executive at Android tablet maker Lenovo claims that Samsung sold only 20,000 of the 1m tablets that it shipped last year as it tried to ‘buy share’ from market leader Apple,” David Meyer reports for The Guardian.
“Samsung said at the end of 2010 that it had shipped 1m of its 7-inch Galaxy devices, which were seen as the first real Android competitors to Apple’s iPad. However, according to Barrow, Samsung only sold 20,000 of the tablets,” Meyer reports. “Andrew Barrow, director of consumer products and pricing for Lenovo Western Europe, told the Guardian that the problem with trying to substantially undercut the price of the Apple iPad, of which around 30m have so far been sold, was that ‘any [manufacturer] would be giving money away.'”
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Meyer reports, “Since the original Galaxy Tab, Samsung has launched a series of successors in a variety of sizes. Its flagship model, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, has a similar screen size to that of the iPad 2 and is currently banned in Germany and Australia due to ongoing litigation with Apple. Apple claims Samsung has copied the look of the iPad in its Android tablets, along with certain elements of functionality.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Hotinplaya” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
total bloodbath!
and i thought they shipped 2 million units …
@ at least $250 each cost, Samsung blew HALF A BILLION on this dog!
Once they competively price them at the sweet price for tablets of $99.00. Watch out they will sell like hotcakes!
🙂
yeah, you’re right. that will cut the loss down to just $300 MILLION!
People should realize that anything Samdung says about the success of their crap is pure 100% BullSh*t!!! LOL
So they’re taking a bath on the Galaxy Tab? If I were dealing in garbage and manure, I’d welcome a bath too.
A significant chunk of those sells likely occurred in India.
they should sell the remainder at a discount like the HP touchPad and the Apple hating Press will also spin that as a ‘success’ just like they are now saying the $99 (money losing) Hp tablet was an intelligent smart ‘strategic’ move by HP and will ‘cripple Apple’ etc …
That is so hilarious. The press does try hard to spin it as a success story. What a load of crap! LOL
Surprised at 20,000 …. Must of been required Employee Purchase …..
Time for another $99 fire sale. But then, Samsung would be shooting itself in the foot, since they actually want to keep making tablets (unlike HP).
But…but… it plays FLASH!
Probably one of the reasons why it only sold 20,000.
Im posting from my father in law’s 7 inch galaxy tab. he and another relative bought them through verizon, for 150. apple is over complementing samsung by suing them. this thing is an almost unusable piece of shit. just typing the previous two.sentences took forever with menus popping up at random the backzpace key sometimes working.sometimes not etc. he tried copying photos to.this and they disappeared. he went to verizon and they told him to email 600 megs of photos to himeself. fuck it too much effort to finish this comment
It is a POS!
Dude. This is hilarious. It does make you wonder why Apple is going to the trouble of suing. I mean, I get the principle part, but is it just to make an example that in addition to losing half a billion dollars embarrassing yourself competing with the iPad, you’ll also get your ass chewed the world over in court? If so, bravo. The faster it’s an open-and-shut repetition of the iPod story, the better!
Widerwake, The trouble is the MP3 players did not look like apple iPods. There was no market confusion. Different stories.
Just saw some people buying a cheap computer at walmart today. No brains, just look at prices, get specs from clerk / local geek and pick one. Of course all their plastic shell machines were Windows. I felt sorry for those people, but not sorry enough to interviene.
People shop on impulse, looks, what the clerk says, most do not shop with their brains. But then again, Apple is not trying to sell to those people, just trying to keep them from thinking that cheap piece of plastic crap that looks like an iPad is really an iPad.
Just a thought,
en
One word. Sanding Sucks.
That’s two words.
Already the analysts in the story are defending Samsung, claiming if it was that bad, we would have heard about it from the resellers.
Baloney. the resellers will keep quiet. Samsung is very good at wheeling and dealing. They have other product that they can offer the retailers with incentives to carry some inventory costs for the tablets. the resellers can hang on a little longer.
samsung thinks they can still play in this game
give it a year they will also have a $99 firesale
you mean January …
I’m thinking November , just in time for stocking stuffers!
Now we know what smooth means, 20,000!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/01/samsungs-lee-young-hee-was-misunderstood-galaxy-tab-sales-are/
So it turns out “sell through was quite small”………after all!
Sales were as smooth as steve balmers head.
lol mike
too bad they didn’t say it properly the first time
Whoa that means there are 980,000 thousand of the Samsung tablets in some ones back room. HP didn’t even have a retail flop that big!
Look out there is a new low price bad boy from Amazon about to drop at $250 for a two finger touch LCD screen.
IMHO that will be the real Android Tablet killer.
It’s been said before…
The only competition to the iPad 2, is the iPad 1.
Once again it’s proven true.
Also steve jobs was proven correct again, he said a 7″ tablet is a bad idea.
iPad screen size is the right size, if anything make it a little bigger for 1080 HD and leave it there.
20k… That just has to hurt.
Now add in all the advertising spent as well.. At least hp dropped out quick when they realized they were going down.
A galaxy tab 10.1 for $99?
I’d buy one for a….. Hmmm, Dunno what I’d use it for actually. Lol.
PDF reader and that’s it. If it falls in the tub while reading…no big whoop.
I just saw an ad for the Tab on Big Brother.
And through the miracle of channel-filling (or stuffing), they can count all those shipped tablets, as “units sold,” at least until the accounting catches up. One way to follow this is to examine the revenue trend against the units reported.
All the Samsung’s lovers think it’s cool to trash Apple’s iPads; wait until Samsung eats up all their jobs and throws them into the street chewing up their beloved Galaxy Tabs with an empty stomach.
And how does Lemovo know what their arch-rival Samsung sold?
I call BS on this.
At least those 20,000 sales were “quite smooth”.
wow…this just goes to show the average IQ of the iApple audience.u guys never went to school Just great..guys, wake up, did you ever read the damn news?do i have to remind you to actually read the news properly?
The 1st line of the news says that “An executive at Android tablet maker Lenovo claims that…”
Did you hear that? An executive from a competing company says that…
Need any more hints??