It has been widely reported over the past couple days that Samsung Galaxy Tab sales have been "quite small," quoting Samsung exec Lee Young-hee during an earnings call. However, Young-hee didn't say "quite small," but rather "quite smooth." Bit of a difference there.
Here is what is being quoted:
“Well, your question was on sell-in and sell-out. As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite small. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.”
This is a case of one misinterpretation that spread like wildfire. We have included the audio snippet that has been quoted as well as a link to the entire call so you make you're own judgement. [Earnings call via Samsung Tomorrow]
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