Samsung again forced to defend tablet sales

By on Mar 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Retail March 23, 2011

Samsung on Wednesday issued a statement in response to a new round of rumors suggesting poor sell-through performance of its tablet devices. Samsung has reported several milestones for its Galaxy Tab Android tablet, which has now sold over 3 million units. Like other manufacturers, Samsung reports sell-in figures — sales into distribution — when detailing sales. On numerous occasions, Samsung’s 7-inch tablet has been accused of collecting dust on store shelves, as recurring rumors suggest the Galaxy Tab has very poor sell-through — sales to end users – performance. In response to this latest round of accusations, which caused Samsung stock to dip on Tuesday, Samsung spokesman James Chung issued a statement. ”We don’t comment on market speculation but such talk is absolutely groundless,” said Chung. ”Our tablet strategy is offering a broad product range with different sizes to support wider customer choice.” Samsung showed off two new Android tablets at CTIA Wireless on Tuesday: the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

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  • Bringit

    iPad.

  • Anonymous

    Even the yet to be shipped Samsung Tablets are selling better than ANY Apple iPad (1 or 1.25 aka 2)

    • Rob

      Well that’s just false.

      • anDROIDforme

        No, it’s not.

      • http://twitter.com/RJay87 RJay Mirosovsky

        yes it is, no tablet has out sold the ipad, more so, ipad beats all the other tablet sales combined. You idiot

    • Anonymous

      Yep that’s why people are still lining up for the iPad thirteen days after it was released. All other tablets combined haven’t even sold more than the first tablet. Grow up goof

  • Fat Mams

    Samsung has the same problem Motorola has. Both companies are run by idiots. They both have terrible advertising agencies (even though Samsung’s agency is a little better). And whoever does pricing at both companies needs to go to jail.

    Instead of taking Apple head on, with an awesome Android tablet (and Honeycomb is the best tablet platform), they tried to copy them, produced lame tablets and marketed them to NERDS ..

    Both companies deserve to go bankrupt .. Google has given them both a sick OS and they both failed .. idiots

    • Anonymous

      Haha. Love the post. I think Samsung marketed to a broader range, or intended to with the 7, but they totally dropped the ball on the OS implementation.

      If this thing worked half as well as any of the other 2.2 devices, it would have at least been looked at. The price, don’t get me started. I totally agree. But it is just hard to justify buying this thing brand new with its ridiculously terribly, laughable, uproarious joke of a browser.

      The browser is the FOCUS of these devices, and it is nightmarish. And still Samsung absolutely refuses to update it OR to allow or at least help developers develop it and bring it up to date.

      I hope people don’t fall for their lies and purchase these new Tabs expecting anything more than a half-baked device that is destined to be left behind.

  • Anonymous

    Methinks Samsung doth protest too much.

  • Anonymous

    ”We don’t comment on market speculation but such talk is absolutely groundless,” said Chung. ”Our tablet strategy is offering a broad product range with different sizes to support wider customer choice.”

    This is not a very strong defense against the poor sales rumors going around, to say the least.

    • Chut Pata

      It is a cookie cutter response. The way companies with low budget PR department have many ready made statements that they pull up and read as needed. “Our company offers a large variety of leading edge technology that meets and exceeds the modern day demands of a wide range of customers … blah blah blah”. All the used-up and badly-beaten terms that I have become sick to, were used by Sam-Suck.

  • Brian

    While I agree with many claiming that tablet manufactures are trying to target their customers wrong, I do feel one way about HTC.Lets face it, as innovative as Android 3.0 is, It still does not have much appeal to an outsider already using an iPad. I think it’s great, I do not have an Android 3.0 tablet, but I think Google has done very well. Here comes the manufactures; I know we all like to “hate” skinning more than anybody. However, I think if HTC came in with a Tablet optimized (3.0) Sense overlay, it would sell.

    HTC has the greatest skins (in my mind) on any android device. They’re easy, and beautiful while still allowing the end user quite a bit of customization. I believe HTC, given the time, could do very well with a Honeycomb tablet with a special “sleek” UI.

    PS. I apologize ahead of time if this is at all choppy. Just woke up from a long hectic night at work. :-)

  • Anonymous

    Why not release the real sale to customers number?

  • Palfrei

    This could be Microsoft or Hewlett Packard’s chance to take the lead in the tablet market. They probably won’t because they keep mocking the iPad. RIM could stand a chance too as BB users are more likely to welcome a new product from their smartphone’s OS company.

  • Palfrei

    This could be Microsoft or Hewlett Packard’s chance to take the lead in the tablet market. They probably won’t because they keep mocking the iPad. RIM could stand a chance too as BB users are more likely to welcome a new product from their smartphone’s OS company.

  • Max

    Let’s see what RIMjob will say when their stupid playbook sits collecting dust. I’m gonna short that Mfer big time.

  • TheOtherGeoff

    The fact they are focusing on the numbers and unable to point to popular use ( over the last month, I’ve yet to see a galaxy tab log into my site… and I have 1,000,000+ US users)

  • Djbay40

    Why don’t they just release the instore sales numbers? The response they gave just avoids the question. Since they didn’t answer the question, my read is that the sales stink.

  • http://twitter.com/thetechhog Michael T. Blake

    ”We don’t comment on market speculation but such talk is absolutely groundless,” said Chung. ”Our tablet strategy is offering a broad product range with different sizes to support wider customer choice.”

    That does not even answer the question. Telling us your business strategy is not denying or admitting the fact that your hardware is not selling to its intended audience. It’s merely sitting on store shelves and getting price reductions to clear it out, which is also proving to be useless.

    Why not just say the Galaxy Tab has not sold like we thought it would, but with our new 8.9 and 10.1 which are priced more aggressively, we feel that we’ll make up for lost ground.

    Boom, simple enough. God I hate PR people, they are worst the lawyers.

  • http://twitter.com/jrcrow79 EK

    they most likely have poor tablet sales cause all they make including their smartphones is NON Eco plastic..craplastic casings..lovely

  • Ace3csusm

    No one is buying because current Samsung smarthphone users have already been burned by Samsung once(no updates to new OS, bad GPS), the people have spoken. Show us some updates for our current devices.

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