Actually, it was probably 800K Android bloggers who were paid to $449 to write a review on the $399 Gear and bash Apple on every message board they could find!!!!!
I hope Apple is able to make theirs a standalone product. I think it would suck as a "companion piece". I would love to have it as my sole phone email checker and not have to haul around anything else. They would sell a hell of a lot more if it was a subsidized standalone phone.
Exactly. While those were originally sold and counted as such you'll note the required disclosures when poor retailer sales resulted in a special allowance for them to return those unsold products for manufacturer write-off. I don't recall any Samsung announcements to that effect (nor Apple either for that matter). You can bet that if it happened it would'a been reported. Not much makes it past the tech press, at least not all of them.
How long did it take for the write down on the Surface? We'll have to wait that long then.
I'm issuing a bounty on the new Galaxy Gear smartwatch. If you're the first person to post on this thread your own photo of someone actually wearing one of these gizmos in public - identifying the date, time, location and circumstances - I'll arrange to send you a free box of these:
No, only the article URL says ’sells’, not the title.
The actual on-page headline reads: "Samsung SHIPS 800,000 Smartwatches Since Launch”
Which tells me that they corrected the original “sells” headline to a more accurate “ships” headline. (they use headlines in the URL commonly at wsj blogs, and those don’t usually get renamed even when the article or headline gets a subsequent edit).
The article TITLE actually reads, “Is the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch from Samsung A Flop?”
And the article itself goes on to question whether reporting “shipped” as sold is really telling the whole story…
Everyone knows Samsung lies, copies, steals, cheats at everything it does. Do you really believe they sold 800,000 of those dumb clunky watches? I don't, not for a second. Maybe they gave them away or like others have said, they are in the inventory all over the place. There reputation as a company has gone down the sewer drain with me. I would not purchase anything with a Samsung label on it.
Why do I call them dumb? Because you need there tablet or phone to actually make them function on top of the $300 you have to spend to get that dumb watch.
Well it doesn't say "sells" anymore. Not when I read it. I also find it strange that the URL, the article title and the tab title say 3 different things.
What I take issue with is a quote within the same article. It says:
Samsung’s announcement “is probably just to show that the shipments have reached close to 1 million,” Doh Hyun-woo, an analyst with Mirae Asset Securities said. “Still, the figure only shows us that people are rarely buying this product given that the Galaxy Note [3] smartphones are expected to average 10 million units in sales per month.”
10 million a month? So what he's saying is Samsung (expects to) sell almost as many Galaxy Note 3s per quarter as Apple sells iPhones per quarter? Seriously??!
Well it doesn't say "sells" anymore. Not when I read it. I also find it strange that the URL, the article title and the tab title say 3 different things.
Interesting. As for the URL being different from the title, that can be the result of rewriting the title after the article was created. Many content management systems auto-generate the URL from the title, but if you later change the title, the URL remains the same unless you also explicitly modify it before publishing. I think that is why they are different.
It also strongly suggests the original title was "Samsung sells 800,000 smartwatches since launch".
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Why would they ship something they don't think they'll sell?
I don't know? Why don't you ask Microsoft about the Surface? I'm sure Samsung's answer will be similar!!!!
Actually, it was probably 800K Android bloggers who were paid to $449 to write a review on the $399 Gear and bash Apple on every message board they could find!!!!!
Using mark-to-market accounting, they get to report future Galaxy Gear sales today! Samsung wins!
I hope Apple is able to make theirs a standalone product. I think it would suck as a "companion piece". I would love to have it as my sole phone email checker and not have to haul around anything else. They would sell a hell of a lot more if it was a subsidized standalone phone.
Apple is lagging way behind when it comes to smart watches.
I hope this is a joke.
Apple aren't lagging behind, they just aren't rushing any old piece of shit to market.
Oddly the article title says 'sells' http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/19/samsung-sells-800000-smartwatches-since-launch/
Samsung do sell them, however, to other resellers. It is the resellers that have to sell them to customers.
Apple sell direct and through their own stores mainly which is why there is a difference between Apple's "units sold" and Samsung's "units sold".
How long did it take for the write down on the Surface? We'll have to wait that long then.
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In December 2006, Apple was lagging way behind when it came to smartphones.
In March 2010, Apple was lagging way behind when it came to tablets.
So, yeah. Apple is lagging way behind when it comes to wearable computing devices. Until it isn't.
When Apple releases a smart watch, it will be using Samsung's screen and flash memory. Apple lags behind in screen and flash memory technology.
The 800K watches are connected to those 10 Million USB-Stick Android Tablets.
Simple, really... When you think about it!
No, only the article URL says ’sells’, not the title.
The actual on-page headline reads: "Samsung SHIPS 800,000 Smartwatches Since Launch”
Which tells me that they corrected the original “sells” headline to a more accurate “ships” headline. (they use headlines in the URL commonly at wsj blogs, and those don’t usually get renamed even when the article or headline gets a subsequent edit).
The article TITLE actually reads, “Is the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch from Samsung A Flop?”
And the article itself goes on to question whether reporting “shipped” as sold is really telling the whole story…
So, nah, nothing very “oddly” there...
Everyone knows Samsung lies, copies, steals, cheats at everything it does. Do you really believe they sold 800,000 of those dumb clunky watches? I don't, not for a second. Maybe they gave them away or like others have said, they are in the inventory all over the place. There reputation as a company has gone down the sewer drain with me. I would not purchase anything with a Samsung label on it.
Why do I call them dumb? Because you need there tablet or phone to actually make them function on top of the $300 you have to spend to get that dumb watch.
800,000 fools. What a joke.
Apple also lags in appliance tech too.
Oddly the article title says 'sells' http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/19/samsung-sells-800000-smartwatches-since-launch/
Well it doesn't say "sells" anymore. Not when I read it. I also find it strange that the URL, the article title and the tab title say 3 different things.
What I take issue with is a quote within the same article. It says:
Samsung’s announcement “is probably just to show that the shipments have reached close to 1 million,” Doh Hyun-woo, an analyst with Mirae Asset Securities said. “Still, the figure only shows us that people are rarely buying this product given that the Galaxy Note [3] smartphones are expected to average 10 million units in sales per month.”
10 million a month? So what he's saying is Samsung (expects to) sell almost as many Galaxy Note 3s per quarter as Apple sells iPhones per quarter? Seriously??!
Well it doesn't say "sells" anymore. Not when I read it. I also find it strange that the URL, the article title and the tab title say 3 different things.
Interesting. As for the URL being different from the title, that can be the result of rewriting the title after the article was created. Many content management systems auto-generate the URL from the title, but if you later change the title, the URL remains the same unless you also explicitly modify it before publishing. I think that is why they are different.
It also strongly suggests the original title was "Samsung sells 800,000 smartwatches since launch".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19/watch_war_samsung_blasts_galaxy_gear_poor_sales_claim/
Edit: I suppose that they could come up with. a special strap configuration that didn't interfere with any activities...
Say it isn't so, Hannah!