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To: pyslent who wrote (9174)	9/3/2011 10:05:08 AM
From: rnsmth	Respond to of 32692

I'll tell you something else. I have done some traveling this summer, a trip to the midwest, another one down to CA by plane then then on the train from Oakland to Paso Robles - flew back out of Burbank. I also ride public transportation downtown to work everyday. I have seen one 7" tablet over the past year. It is the only non-iPad tablet I have seen. I see iPads in use every day on the bus to work. I see them every time I travel - on planes, trains and automobiles. I'm not seeing much sell-through to consumers of these mythical Android tablets. I do think that Amazon has potential - but just as nothing has killed the profits of the iPhone, which have gone from 50% of the total cell phone manufacturer profits, nothing is going to kill the profits of the iPad. Apple is alone among mobile manufacturers in terms of having a high profit, high margin business model.

To: pyslent who wrote (9174)	9/3/2011 10:11:13 AM
From: iggyl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Samsung Galaxy Tab sold just 20,000 out of 1m shipped, claims rival Lenovo boss says that trying to undercut Apple means losing money as Chinese company offers tablet close to iPad pricing David Meyer, IFA, Berlin guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 September 2011 18.31 BST A rival has claimed that the Samsung Galaxy Tab sold just 20,000 out of 1m units shipped 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. The dramatically low figure suggests that Samsung's efforts with its first 7-inch tablet, launched exactly a year ago, fell far short of targets. Andrew Barrow, director of consumer products and pricing for Lenovo Western Europe, told the Guardian that the problem with trying to substantially undercut the price of the Apple iPad, of which around 30m have so far been sold, was that "any [manufacturer] would be giving money away." Samsung said at the end of 2010 that it had shipped 1m of its 7-inch Galaxy devices, which were seen as the first real Android competitors to Apple's iPad. However, according to Barrow, Samsung only sold 20,000 of the tablets. Samsung had not returned a request for comment on Barrow's claim by the time of publication. Samsung has never given details of the actual sales it has made in the tablet market. In an earnings call at the end of January, Samsung executives admitted that the company had shipped far more tablets than had actually been sold, saying that the latter figure was "quite smooth" – a puzzling phrase that was never explained. guardian.co.uk