“Last week Samsung brought forward the release date of the Galaxy Note 4, and the phablet is now on sale with three of the major South Korean mobile phone carriers (reports The Korean Times),” Ewan Spence writes for Forbes. “Originally scheduled for availability in October, the positive pubic [sic] reaction to Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus has forced Samsung into an aggressive defensive play.”
“Setting a target of shipping 15 million Galaxy Note 4s in the first month after launch is ambitious, and I think Samsung will struggle to convert the shipped stock into sales, even with the Note 4′s SIM-free price being less than the launch price of the Note 3 and the Note 3,” Spence writes. “The 6 Plus (coupled with the 4.7 inch screened iPhone 6) has had a stellar first week of sales. Anyone buying a 6 Plus is clearly not going to be buying a Note 4 in the near future.”
Spence writes, “To react so quickly to a competitor, to bring forward a planned release data, and to apply a price cut on day zero sales, says much about Samsung’s lack of complete confidence in the Note 4.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The more pain inflicted upon Samsung, the better. Samsung is a garbage company with zero ethics.
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