“According to the industry on the 19th, the Wireless Business Division at Samsung Electronics is planning to reduce the monthly production of Galaxy S4 by 10 to 15% and retire Galaxy S3 sooner than planned,” Lee Hyung-soo reports for etnews.
“The July order for Galaxy S4 parts is for 6.5 million handsets, which is only about a half of the same order placed for May,” Lee reports. “The parts procured for Galaxy S4 had been climbing the chart in April (for 10 million handsets) and May (for 1.2 million [sic – likely means “12 million” – MDN Ed.] handsets), but the trend moved downward in June.”
Lee reports, “A warning light [for Samsung] started to blink this month in Samsung’s supply chain management, as the gap between Galaxy S4s sold in the market and the parts inventory started to widen.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, that’s too bad.
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Much as I’d like to believe it’s 1.2 million… I assume there’s a typo and it’s actually 12 million handsets for May… otherwise the 6.5 million order for July being “about half of the same order placed for May” doesn’t make sense.
You don’t say. I have a feeling the tech press will bury this news. Just like they didn’t talk about Samsung’s $19B drop in market cap over fears of slowing Galaxy sales.
There really is no “Tech Press” if your associating that group to real Journalist. It’s more like “paid blogger masquerading as Tech Press Journalist”…or something like that. 😉
What, are you suggesting that the press is biased against Apple? Inconceivable!
You keep using that word.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
What? … Samsung isn’t selling as many Galaxy S4’s as it planned?
Time for Shamesuck to repeat what Apple suffered.
I’ll start believing in journalistic integrity and balance again when I see this story from a Korean IT journal picked up by AP, Reuters, or any other news agency and printed in the WSJ or the NYT, even on page 37 btf.
Yeah, but isn’t it fun fun fun to see some anti-Samsung FUD for a change?
You get what you give, Samsung.
Yeah, but it’s not FUD if its fact 🙂
Let’s hope it really is fact!
But these days, I expect whatever I hear to be wrong, and it usually is. That’s why I call this ‘The Age of Marketing’, among other things. Most stuff is BS designed to screw with our heads.
Consumers make choices. Loser products die.
The only place I see S4 is in Koreans’ hands on Korean TV and Korea Town.
To paraphrase Tim Cook: “The supply-chain is complicated”
Didn’t Samsung just announce the rumors of slow sales was not accurate? Did they lie?
Could they be about to announce an S 5? That is always the argument when we read about drop in Apple orders isn’t it? Just sayin’.
Oh, NOW I get your posts- they are supposed to be pure sarcasm!
Sales are “quite small”. Or is it “quite smooth”?
Here we go! FUD for Samsung. BWAHAHAHA! Circling down the drain:
A warning light [for Samsung] started to blink this month in Samsung’s supply chain management, as the gap between Galaxy S4s sold in the market and the parts inventory started to widen.
What a dick company. No sympathy.
Come on paid Samsung trolls. Lemme have it! Make me LAUGH. 😆
I give in, you’re right.
The checks have stopped coming from Samsung.
Funniest thing you’ve said in a while 🙂 +1
Retiring the S3 early indicated that they want to push the demand to the S4 which the probably make more money on. As we have heard the lower priced handsets of Goosung are selling very well. I know one person that bought the S2 when the S3 was released because it was so cheap. The operators slash the price on old inventory whe new is coming. I saw a smashing deal in the iPhone 4 the other day from on if our Swedish operators.