Comments on: U.S. tablet sales last quarter: Apple sold 5.2 million; Samsung sold 37,000

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:46:16 +0000

“who refuse to buy an iPad – like me”
Troll, you’ve never bought a Apple product in your life. You build your own computer and get free copies of windows and your game programs.

By: MM

MM — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:51:19 +0000

It’d be interesting to know what percentage of Apple users have avoided buying an iPad because of its limitations on only being excellent at content consumption, but merely coping with content creation, specifically the lack of a proper filing system, assuming that the iPad target-user is a moron who only can use a single-level filing system without getting confused.

The reason that it’d be interesting is that percentage of Apple users, who refuse to buy an iPad – like me – are waiting to see what Windows 8 tablets are like in practice. Of course I’ve seen the Windows RT tablets in videos, and have read the positive and negative hype. But there’s nothing like using one to decide. If Windows RT is designed to help content-creators, then I’ll be buying my first Windows product in close to a decade.

If Apple thumbs its middle finger at content-creators, because we’re not their core market, and Apple can make $110 billion without supporting our needs – then we’ll go with the first competitor who can produce a decent infrastructure that can help content creators. So far, that hasn’t materialised, but there is pent up demand waiting for the competition to catch up. Sure, it might be 5 years more, but the pent up demand is waiting for a company that doesn’t treat its users as morons.

By: K.C

K.C — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:04:33 +0000

Not for long, the bottom is dropping out as we speak.

By: KarlV

KarlV — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:35:00 +0000

rofl… Brad delution

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:19:27 +0000

Best comment of the day!

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:17:26 +0000

Good one, Brad!

By: braddilution

braddilution — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:53:30 +0000

Please don’t dilute Brad.

By: 0zzie9O3

0zzie9O3 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:58:45 +0000

Haha … Apple’s not after damages. Steve Jobs said so. Apple wants Samsung to design its own products.

Though you’ve chosen the name ‘MacFreek,’ your comments — here and elsewhere — are those of a MacTroll.

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:30:32 +0000

Selling x number of copies is only one part of the damage, which doesn’t address brad dilution, and damage to Apples reputation.

By: iGads

iGads — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:25:18 +0000

Cough, cough….shipped…cough, cough……sold……..Blahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Every freak’n “anal-ysis” who every wrote anything about market share, is grasping for a rag to wash the shit off their face. hahahahah ohhhhhh hahahahaha bang, floor, hahahaha

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:19:20 +0000

Over in England they should provide the apology the courts asked for: “Samsung’s 37,000 tablets did not copy our 5.7 million iPads. Our mistake.”

By: ken1w

ken1w — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:08:41 +0000

Seems like customers actually understand that iPod is the REAL THING and everything else is a weak copy.

By: Alcancun

Alcancun — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:31:21 +0000

Wirh those pitiful sales records Apple probably should have let Samsung continue…. Then use the info in their advertising like..”we outsold our closest competitor Samsung 1500 to 1…. Or 5.7 million to 35k…. Or…. Never mind, we can already see most of you are not stupid enough to buy a Galaxy tablet….

Well they wouldn’t be so blunt … But the idea is there.

By: dougbromac

dougbromac — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:15:45 +0000

I guess you saw the title is 5.2 million. The body say 5.7 million. The article corroborates 5.7 million.

By: ditchdoc68

ditchdoc68 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:02:25 +0000

By: disposableidentity

disposableidentity — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:59:54 +0000

Except they made it seem pretty clear to journalists & analysts that they had sold 2 million units last year.

By: Federico

Federico — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:25:04 +0000

samsung does not report numbers. The shyster analysts made it all up.

As far as getting payola from samdung, who knows.

By: cd

cd — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:18:24 +0000

that’s what i was thinking. despite how laughable this makes samsung seem, i would think this hurts Apple’s case that they did indeed feel damaged by the copy.

By: TimD

TimD — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:53:03 +0000

Sales were “smooth.”

By: Netcruizer99

Netcruizer99 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:46:05 +0000

Oh yeah, it could also mean that they are so bad at copying Apple that they even tried to copy Apple’s sales numbers!

By: Netcruizer99

Netcruizer99 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:37:40 +0000

What this means is that either Samsung is lying to the court to minimize damages if they lose the court case, or they lied to investors and the press regarding the number of tabs & phones sold.

Or it could mean that Best buy, and other retailers have millions of devices in their warehouses. If any of the above is true, Samsung is finished.

By: MacFreek

MacFreek — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:37:00 +0000

Apple will have a hard time claiming damages when it out sells Samsung 1500 to 1.

By: xil

xil — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:31:49 +0000

I wonder if all those companies who produce market share numbers for tablets will revise them based on this new material, Apples market share will jump into the ninety percentile!

By: Bongo

Bongo — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:29:59 +0000

If you were a Samsung stockholder you’d be enjoying record revenue and profits.

By: KarlV

KarlV — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:57 +0000

It’s funny because it’s true.

By: iFan

iFan — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:03 +0000

Based on 91 days in a quarter, that means Apple sold (on average) as many iPads in about HALF day last quarter than Samsung sold of their tablets in the ENTIRE quarter.

If I were a Samsung stock holder, I would demand that they stop investing valuable R&D money on copying Apple – IMMEDIATELY.

By: R2

R2 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:22:59 +0000

And Apple tablet dominance is about to grow all the more stronger once the iPad mini is unleashed.

By: bluejay

bluejay — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:19:43 +0000

Wait till the 7″ model

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:18:17 +0000

Who cares how many Samsung sold? What really matters is how many did they ship?

By: chefpastry

chefpastry — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:16:39 +0000

lmfao

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:15:45 +0000

The iPad is the Usain Bolt of tablets, the Michael Phelps of tablets, the United States Basketball Dream Team of tablets.

The Galaxy Tab is the Lolo Jones of tablets. All hype but no gold.