[imitchellg5]

The Tab is completely irrelevant now.

[freudling]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Why so rude?

Don't you remember the Samsung exec admitting that they'd lied?

No, I don't, because they didn't lie. Go slander another company...

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Also, that article AGAIN talks about shipments, not sales, AFAICT, and does not take into account returns. Since it makes total sense to overship for Christmas, we'll see how it pans out.

Samsung Galaxy Tab return rate is 16%. Wait! Maybe not!

Maximum PC | Samsung: Galaxy Tab Return Rate Below 2 Percent

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by freudling 

Samsung Galaxy Tab return rate is 16%. Wait! Maybe not!

Maximum PC | Samsung: Galaxy Tab Return Rate Below 2 Percent

"The return rate of the Galaxy Tab in the U.S. as claimed by a North American market research firm is incorrect," Samsung wrote on its Samsung Tomorrow blog. "According to Samsung Electronics Mobile Communications Business, the return rate is below 2 percent."

Incidentally, the return rate for Apple's iPad is 2 percent, a comparison that was made in The New York Post's article. So why all the confusion? According to ZDNet, Samsung's sloppy communication might ultimately be to blame. Samsung recently bragged to the world that it had sold 2 million Galaxy Tabs, but when pressed for more information, the company admitted that these were in-channel sales to partners rather than indicative of consumer sales.

So they didn't get caught lying, they got caught not actually telling the truth.
Okay, point taken.

So, given that we now know what they're talking about (and they do, too), it's safe to assume that the "2%" return rate MUST be of devices SHIPPED to retailers, not of actual devices SOLD, right?

So if 2% returned of SHIPPED devices (2 million) is equivalent to 16% of actual SALES, we can infer that Samsung has sold approximately 250,000 Galaxy Tabs.

[olePigeon]

Samsung responds to installation of keylogger on its laptop computers

Heh. I wonder if they have a keylogger on the Galaxy.

[Cold Warrior]

Knowing Samsung, they probably include the keylogger when they advertise numbers of apps for the Tab.

[Spheric Harlot]

Also, this is pretty harsh (though not *quite* fair due to the iPad's head-start):

iPad generated $9.5 billion in revenue; everyone else $34 million

[Shaddim]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

Also, this is pretty harsh (though not *quite* fair due to the iPad's head-start):

iPad generated $9.5 billion in revenue; everyone else $34 million

I wonder if that counts the 3 million Nook Colors that B&N sold? Probably not, since it's technically not considered a tablet.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

So, given that we now know what they're talking about (and they do, too), it's safe to assume that the "2%" return rate MUST be of devices SHIPPED to retailers, not of actual devices SOLD, right?

So if 2% returned of SHIPPED devices (2 million) is equivalent to 16% of actual SALES, we can infer that Samsung has sold approximately 250,000 Galaxy Tabs.

Samsung Galaxy Tab sold just 20,000 out of 1m shipped, claims rival | Technology | guardian.co.uk

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.

Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch

[imitchellg5]

Not surprising. I've seen them as low as $149 at retailers.

[freudling]

I think the Galaxy Tab has much higher sell out than what Lenovo is saying. I can't confirm either way, but the sell out from what I've heard in Europe is not that bad.

Outside of Samsung, I think every other tablet on the market besides the iPad and TouchPad is a piece of shit.

[imitchellg5]

Well, surely Lenovo wouldn't be unbiased about Samsung sales numbers.