“Best Buy this weekend will kick-off an aggressive promo that offers a free Galaxy Tab 10.1 to buyers of certain HDTVs, possibly hinting that yet another iPad rival is in need of a stimulus to combat poor sales, assuming Samsung can keep it on the market,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
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“The offer, which starts August 21 and runs through August 27, promises a free, 16GB Wi-Fi version of the Android tablet to any customer who purchases a 46-inch or 55-inch, LED-lit 3D TV worth $1,500 or $2,000,” Lane reports. “Electronista notes that the deal isn’t as drastic as the $100 TouchPad price drop that lasted a week before HP on Thursday ultimately waved the white flag in defeat, but is nonetheless unusual for a $500 device that’s been on the market for just a few weeks.”
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Really? I thought Best Buy would be giving a Samsung Galaxy Tab away free with every purchase of an HP TouchPad seeing how smoothly both sold into the channel.
Lol that made me giggle.
Truth
Reading the headline, it sounded like you got a free Galaxy Tab 10.1 just for walking through the door !
No no no. That is NEXT month’s promotion.
Thought the same.
Or after rebate etc.
I’d pick one up it it were, but spend $1500 minimum to get a cheap ass wannabe? Pass
I was almost tempted to grab one if these soon to be extinct android tablets just for the heck of it anyway, but for cheap.. $100 is pushing it.
I *almost* bought a zune hd last week… Only for the hd radio. But no Bluetooth and the aftermarket Bluetooth stuff supposedly interferes with the hd radio… So I passed.
Sort of reminds me of back in the 80’s when TI tried making a small computer, the TI-99/4A. It had really great specs (it was 16 bit in an 8 bit world), but only ran TI’s OS that had mostly games on cartridges. They started at around $1200, but I picked one up for my kids for $49.
That was a nifty machine but almost zero software, other than games …… And with DOS, Apple and Commodore OS systems who knew if Tandy was going to spawn their own ……
So it was tempting at that price but as we know it went nowhere …..
I wrote my first BASIC program on a TI-99/4A. No way to save it back then, just had to re-type it. 🙂
TI-99/4A was my first computer. My dad got it for me FREE because he rented so many cars from Hertz. When a device is in the give-away stage, it’s about to enter the extinct phase. People don’t want iPad copy cats at ANY price, they want iPads. The only market for the fakes are a museum!
Next month: You get one to use as warming tray when you walk into the snack bar. The battery may last through your nachos.
Month Later: free home nacho warmer.
So… When is android supposed to have majority “tablet” market share? 2000- never?
To make this a much more attractive offer they should include a 60″ LED TV with the purchase of a Galaxy Tab.
Free is still too much.
So did Best Buy say to Samsung, “Take these tablets back. We cannot sell them.” And did Samsung say, “We don’t want them. Give them away.”
Great news, fellow boycotters of everything Samsung and most things Korean. — you now get to ignore/remain oblivious to two Samsung products simultaneously at Best Buy. Take advantage of this promotion while it lasts or take it up a notch by ignoring Best Buy stores alltogether till after holiday sales.
The only way to move these POS is to give them away.
The bummer about this is that all of these units will stay counted in the “shipped” category, which means that idiot/lazy writers will keep on claiming that Android has carved out X% of the tablet market, even thought the real story is that their % of the “actually paid for the product” market is much, much lower.
Even worse – they’ll be counted as SOLD, seeing as the went out the door with a customer and are no longer in the warehouse.
All these non-Apple tablets that are being given away will be considered by analysts as chipping away at iPad market share. Apple stock will have to be downgraded because the iPad is in grave danger of being overtaken by nearly free Android and WebOS tablets. That’s the iPad’s rivals’ master plan.
No Thanks! I will wait till the 55″ inch LED Retina Display Apple Tv is released.
Guys grab one of these, you will own a piece of memorabilia. Maybe u can sell it next year on eBay, for lets say … $9.95 to collectors.
Is this the classic strategy of lose money on individual sales and “make it up on volume”.
I’m waiting for the free TouchPad giveaway, seeing as they are DOA.
I kept giggling at my TV tonight – must have seen half a dozen ads for the defunct TouchPad. Sure, HP already bought and paid for the ad time, but you’d think they would be too embarrassed to let them air.
Give me a few hundred $$$ off of the TV price and keep the POS Galaxy Tab.
Not-The-Best Buy, methinks.
Boy, Best Buy always seems to be trying to find ways to piss business partner Apple off! First it was backing the ill fated Google TV and Apple refused to ship them Apple TV and now this. I’ll be they’re going to see restrained shipments on the next iPad!
“a free, 16GB Wi-Fi version of the Android tablet to any customer who purchases a 46-inch or 55-inch, LED-lit 3D TV worth $1,500 or $2,000,”
BWAHAHAHA! This move is even more hilarious than Zune and TouchPad market dumping! It REEKS of Samsung desperation.
Yes, I told you Samsung: You are sooo screwed.
But I continue to worry:
Where are REAL competitors with Apple?
HELLO?HELLO? Hello? hello? h…
if you want a new tv then buy this deal sell the galaxy tab on kijiji
get a huge rebate on the tv in the process
the non-iPad tablet market is really tanking…
I just saw on slickdeals.net that you can get a HP touchpad for $99…. Starting Saturday or something.
16gb $99, 32gb $149.
Some reported that they were able to order them on Friday…
With a 15% discount code they were getting the 16gb shipped for like $92..
Sad, it will up the “market share” for the HP tablet.
Samsung giving their crap away, HP dumping them on the market… And apple just laughs all the way to the bank