Lenovo Claims Samsung Galaxy Tab Sold Just 20,000

An anonymous reader writes "Andrew Barrow, director of consumer products for Lenovo Western Europe, claims that the original Galaxy Tab only sold 20,000 out of one million shipped. He goes on to say Samsung was 'channel stuffing' in order to generate publicity and become known as a major Android tablet manufacturer."

wasn't aware of that term

[Trepidity]

From Wikipedia,

Channel stuffing is the business practice where a company, or a sales force within a company, inflates its sales figures by forcing more products through a distribution channel than the channel is capable of selling to the world at large.

Sounds analogous to the common practice in the book-publishing industry of quoting "100,000 copies shipped" or whatever, which may or may not bear much relationship to how many books have been sold. In fact, some of the strange practices in book retailing, like publishers' willingness to give a credit to bookstores for unsold books without even having them returned, are in part aimed at making it easier to shovel a bunch of books down the distribution channels.

Re:Seriously HP, you're a tool.

[Anonymous Coward]

Lenovo is referring to the fail 7 inch original Galaxy Tab running Android 2.2. Not the Honeycomb tablet. This is because Lenovo made their own tablet running Android 2.3, in that same 7 inch form factor.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is doing just fine.

Re:History repeats itself

[X.25]

Niche product is niche product.

I suppose you could call a Telxon a handheld computer too. But it's a niche product too.

So no, Fujitsu's tablets aren't general purpose enough to count.

Hahaha. You are so dumb.

I wonder...

[MrMatto]

...if Apple's injunction against Samsung has anything to do with there supposedly only being 20,000 out of a million units sold?

Re:History repeats itself

[bonch]

What Android devices looked like before and after the iPhone/iPad [designer-daily.com]