When Samsung touted the 2 million Galaxy Tab milestone, they never meant those units were sold directly to consumers. In fact, during an earnings call Samsung executive, Lee Young-hee confirmed that the 2 million units Samsung sold were to distributors.
The exec told that the sell-in (sold to distributors) numbers were quite strong as it was evident from the recent milestones but the sell-out (sold to consumers) “wasn’t as fast as [Samsung] expected” and were “quite small” without giving any numbers.
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.
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