Tab Same Fate as HP Touchpad?

[1414H77]

I love the tab, but the lack of sales of the HP touchpad does make me wonder how well the other iPad competitors are selling, the Tab among them.

For example, look at how little activity there is on this forum. Yes, the geeks among us, me included, are here, but the number of new threads is really quite small. This makes me wonder how well it is actually selling. You normally see more activity with a hot item. Does anyone know of any channel sales statistics that show how well the Tab is selling in stores and online?

When I go to various Best Buys, for example, the salespeople never seem to know much about the Tab, accessories, or anything else related to it, but mainly the iPad. Plus, as to the other Android tablets I see very little in the way of consumers playing with them, but always with the iPads. All of this has overtones of the fate of the HP Touchpad.

I realize there were a lot of missteps by HP, including non-functional units in the store, bad training of store salespeople, and hardware that was huge. But other similarities seem to be there for the Tab and other Android tablets.

I realize we are all passionate about the Tab and some of us are fanboys, but if we step back and look at it analytically, are the Tab and other Android tablets exhibiting some of the ominous trends of the HP Touchpad?

Thoughts?

 

[markp99]

Maybe you're looking at the wrong forum? Lots of activity elsewhere

 

[Major]

I doubt Samsung is ready to throw in the towel. HP's situation was very different because they were the only OEM making webOS products. If webOS had more market share (even if it came via other OEMs), it would have had much more app developer support, and maybe even better hardware from the aforementioned other OEMs. In the end, HP made subpar hardware at a premium price and had little developer interest.

 

[jrmarinojr]

I hope you are kidding...the Tab is the hottest Android tablet on the market....and the best, I might add.

 

[superlawyer15]

I don't think there are any comparisons to be made between the touchpad and the galaxy tab

...there's a reason why apple is faking evidence to get it banned

Because they view it as a credible threat

 

[generalmax3]

I don't think there are any comparisons to be made between the touchpad and the galaxy tab

...there's a reason why apple is faking evidence to get it banned

Because they view it as a credible threat

BOOM!

 

[1414H77]

More evidence- giving it away to.help sell tvs.

Best Buy Offering Free Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with TV Purchase - Mac Rumors

 

[rw0749]

One of the reasons the tab sales may have fallen off in the past few weeks is Samsung discontinued using the reps they had in the stores that were responsible for the product intro.. the BB reps have always promoted apple.. now they get an incentive to sell the ipad.. if they meet their accessory quotas for Ipads they all get a bonus...so now if you went in to a Best Buy store and "acted as if you knew nothing about a tablet" they would probably lead you straight to an ipad... that could be a reason why some of the posts have slowed a little.. Samsung has sold an enormous amount of tablets.. it was primarily due to their reps promoting the Galaxy that caused people not to even look at the TouchPad.. when Samsung intro's the 8.9 maybe they will put the reps back in the stores..

 

[freddyc]

I don't think you should be concerned about the Tab 10.1. Lets look at the big picture: even if Samsung stops making it, it still runs Honeycomb which is Google. We'll always have app support even if they never make another 10.1. HP was making one tablet with one OS with very little dev support.

 

[mag44]

How does best buy bundling tabs with a 3d TV indicate any problems? They and other retailers consistently bundle playstations, 3d blu-ray players, and other stuff to move 3d TVs. I think its more indicative of them wanting to sell 3d TVs instead of getting rid of tabs, playstations, or whatever deal they are running at the moment.

I wish more retailers would sell the tab. In my travels, it seems like best buy and staples are the only stores selling it. My local staples does not even carry any accessories like they do for every other tablet they sell. Office Depot and Office Max seem to sell every honeycomb tablet except for Samsung's. Walmart carries the Xoom, Acer, HP, Nooks, and carries accessories for what they sell.

They need to undercut Apple's pricepoints, it wasn't until the 100 dollar off coupon until I decided to ditch my ipad for the galaxy tab. After reading about Staples's difficulties with tablet inventories, I'm wondering if there is a flood of new honeycomb users out there.

I also want to see more acessories, I'm stuck using this mediocre Belkin verve folio case and have not really seen any better alternatives at the moment.

 

[ziggster]

HP failed to nurture web os after buying it from Palm. The Touchpad is just one device that happens to run web os. Others include a couple of Palm phones and some HP web enabled printers.

Just about every hardware mfg other than Apple and HP make devices that utilize Android os. Android is here to stay. The problem is that those manufacturers are competing with each other AND Apple.

Just which Android tablet(s) will be around in a year or two is a real crap shoot. Such is the nature of buying any tablet other than ipad.

For the record, I am a content GT owner.

 

[whiteshadow001]

I don't think there are any comparisons to be made between the touchpad and the galaxy tab

...there's a reason why apple is faking evidence to get it banned

Because they view it as a credible threat

That just happened, eat it apple

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[Unklekeg]

Hey now, take it easy... I just flippin got here after swapping my touchpad for the 10.1 yesterday!

 

[dmcman73]

More evidence- giving it away to.help sell tvs.

Best Buy Offering Free Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with TV Purchase - Mac Rumors

You do know that Apple at one time was giving away iPad's to students that purchased a new MAC right? So if your logic is correct then Apple was having a hard time selling the iPad as well? Maybe they were having a hard time selling iPods when some stores were bundling them with other products...yeah, that's it....anyone that bundles a product with another one is having a hard time selling the other product...it couldn't be to lure customers into their stores and not have them go else where....no that wouldn't be it.

 

[1414H77]

You do know that Apple at one time was giving away iPad's to students that purchased a new MAC right? So if your logic is correct then Apple was having a hard time selling the iPad as well? Maybe they were having a hard time selling iPods when some stores were bundling them with other products...yeah, that's it....anyone that bundles a product with another one is having a hard time selling the other product...it couldn't be to lure customers into their stores and not have them go else where....no that wouldn't be it.

This is not correct. Apple has never given a free iPad with a mac purchase. They have had promotions where they gave free iPods or $100 in free apps, but never iPads. There have been people who suggested in forums that Apple should offer an iPad promo also, but they have never done it.

I want to see hard sales numbers of the Tab, if anyone has seen anything on this. The only thing I have seen is comments that the iPad has outsold the total combined sales of all Android competitors by 8 to 1, but don't know how reliable that is. Also, what are the actual sell through stats out of that for just the Tab?

 

[Stormhead77]

More evidence- giving it away to.help sell tvs.

Best Buy Offering Free Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with TV Purchase - Mac Rumors

So by that reasoning the fact that Microsoft is giving away free Xbox 360's to students who buy new Windows PC's means the Xbox 360 is going the way of the HP Touchpad? Sorry, bundling is an age-old retail practice.

I have my work issued iPad2 and my GTab 10.1 and prefer the Tab hands down. I do see the attraction to the iPad for the general public who frankly are a bit intimidated by the openness and flexibility of Android. Apple did a good job packaging up devices for the layman (iPod Touch/Nano, iPad, iPhone) and to each their own. There was even a recent review the rated the Tab just slightly higher than the iPad 2 so even the critics are taking notice.

For me it's Android all the way!

 

[Jay Evans]

The only thing I have seen is comments that the iPad has outsold the total combined sales of all Android competitors by 8 to 1, but don't know how reliable that is.

Maybe true for now but it's the same thing they say about Android phones not long ago and now Android has about 48% of the WW smartphone market compared to Apples 26%.

 

[1414H77]

Whoa guys. I am not suggesting the promo of tabs with TVs alone is by itself evidence, but I am just saying it is a piece of the possible puzzle along with other things.

As to Android having 48% of the smartphone market, true, but...

Android as an operating system is comprised of sales of everything from low end to high end phones in all shapes and sizes by a variety of manufacturers. By contrast, Apple does it with two phones, the iPhone 3 and iPhone 4, so that is a comparison I do not trust.

Don't get me wrong- I love the Tab, but I really wonder how well it is really selling at the retail level.

 

[dmcman73]

This is not correct. Apple has never given a free iPad with a mac purchase. They have had promotions where they gave free iPods or $100 in free apps, but never iPads. There have been people who suggested in forums that Apple should offer an iPad promo also, but they have never done it.

I want to see hard sales numbers of the Tab, if anyone has seen anything on this. The only thing I have seen is comments that the iPad has outsold the total combined sales of all Android competitors by 8 to 1, but don't know how reliable that is. Also, what are the actual sell through stats out of that for just the Tab?

My mistake, it was other stores that were giving them away with purchases, not directly from Apple...but the iPads were given away like what Bestbuy is doing with the Tab.