Tag: sales

The TouchPad aftermarket proves nothing about its commercial potential

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A small number of geeks, chasing after even smaller quantities of end-of-lined geek toys, are keeping the price high. That does not mean that the HP Touchpad would have been a commercial success, nor does it mean that the price is reflecting the general feeling of a machine that should still be on sale. Geeks will buy one everything they can get their hands on. Selling a few thousand is easy. Selling a few hundreds of thousands, to get a 0.1% share, that’s hard. And you need far more market share to make a going and profitable concern.

Of course smartphones are shipping more than featurephones

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…in Q2 more smartphones entering the sales channel than feature phones. Shipments of feature devices declined by 29 percent to 20.4 million units, while smartphones grew by 48 percent to 21.8 million units. That works out to a ratio of 48:52 in favor of smart devices. The manufacturers could have made that happen at any point since “smartphones” became a byword for “phone with a lot of features.” The key is to find out when they sell more than feature phones.