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Tallest Skil 
So there are three options here…
Samsung lied about the first numbers and these are legit: They'll be crucified by their shareholders, an inquiry will be raised, and there'll be a ton of trouble.
Samsung told the truth about the first numbers and these are a lie: They'll be crucified by their shareholders, an inquiry will be raised, and there'll be a ton of trouble.
Samsung lied about the first numbers and is also lying about these: They'll be crucified 2x by their shareholders, an even larger inquiry will be raised, and there will be unimaginable trouble.
It really doesn't happen. It'll be one person with one post, something simple, "Apple rocks!", and that's that. Not like here. Not at all like here. These people are deranged.
Lately, he says…

Or, option number four = reality.
Shipped and sold are NOT the same thing.
If Samsung shipped 1 million tablets to Best Buy, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, etc., that means that those tablets are sitting on the sales floor at those retailers. However, Samsung doesn't get to count any of those tablets as a sale until an actual end customer walks in the door, buys one, and takes it home.
If Samsung only sells 10,000 of that million, the rest will eventually get shipped back to Samsung and Samsung would take (very simplified explanation:) some sort of write-down on inventory as an expense. Take a look at press coverage of RIM's tablet debacle.
Typically a manufacturer without any retailing operations (e.g., Samsung vs. Apple, which does have retail as well), would include units shipped in their financial reporting, disclosures, etc. but may not ever disclose the actual number of units that are sold -- in no small part, becuse they don't want a competitor to be able to back into the numbers to figure out their cost of goods sold, net profit per unit, etc. given that the company would probably consider that to be a proprietary trade secret.
There is also a financial reporting distinction that you expect between units sold and units shipped simply because of quarterly financial reporting. If a company records a unit as sold in Q2, it may have actually been shipped in Q1 or before. Similarly, units shipped in Q2, may not sell until a subsequent quarter (or never).
Samsung may have lied about the number of units sold. They may have lied about the number of units shipped. I have no clue. But just because those numbers don't match up in a specific quarter, it's not any proof that they did lie about anything.
(Well, I guess they may have lied when they said they made great tablets that consumers would eagerly purchase...)