Thread: Till date how many internet tablets do you think were sold?
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2008-04-11 , 13:38
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Originally Posted by meanwhile View Post
The platform owner will wriggle, use ambiguity, take the maximum of every estimated range - use every trick he or she can to get maximum numbers.
You're both very worked up over a stupid sales figure discussion and more than a little cynical. <_<

Originally Posted by meanwhile View Post
When a platform owner says "300, 000 sales" that always means to the retail chain unless if is clearly stated otherwise - that's how the business works.
Well, even assuming this point is entirely meaningful, there's maybe 2 places that actually sell the thing retail, and that doesn't work out to all that many units.

Originally Posted by meanwhile View Post
In the NIT's case these all say that end user sales are far lower than Nokia's claims, if you take them naively.
Personally, I'd disagree.