That’s the take away from this article. Note these pre-orders were sold out to Korea’s three main telecoms . But what’s lacking is the actual context (the total numbers). The CNET article does link to a Korean site which actually provides the real meat though. Rhetorical question: why did the author not include those numbers (it’s right there in that Korean article)?
Those pre-orders amounted to 30,000 units in TOTAL (10,000 units for each telecom company). That isn’t a mistake. Yeah, I can make one of something, and put an incredible sensationalist spin on it that I sold out all of my product. While this is disingenuous/misleading, that’s how the media is nowadays anyway. It’s never a complete story and the details are cherry picked to suit an agenda. And people wonder why I have zero respect/cynical view for the likes of Bloomberg, CNBC, main stream broadcast media.
I mentioned in another post that I want to see Samsung not put any spin on the Note 4 sales (not shipped numbers to either the telecoms/sales channel aka channel stuffing but actual real sales to actual customers). The hypocrisy in the media is also incredible in this area; if Apple were to stuff the channel and claim those numbers as sells, the media has a field day. When the likes of Samsung does it, it’s crowed about as increased sales at the expense of iOS devices.
Hell, “bendgate” isn’t even having any marked effect in terms of curbing demand for the new iPhones. There is no huge groundswell of people posting to social media that they are holding off on their iPhone purchases or people who already have gotten their hands on one, returning them (as most everyone is still within the 14 day return window until the end of this week). And I really don’t care what Apple-haters think either; those folks are as ideologically irrational as the Apple fanatic (myself, I’ve already mentioned I dislike the Apple fanatic – the ones who give the rest of us a bad wrap).
Not even the regulatory hold up in China has done much to stop people from putting good money down for a black market iPhone 6. China was a launch partner for the Note 4’s earlier debut this weekend. All of the “bendgate” noise as well as the fact that the iPhone 6 isn’t yet legally for sale in China, has done much to push customers towards Samsung’s newer offerings. Chinese who can’t afford an iPhone have great options with Xiaomi or Huawei; but at the premium end, Apple is the primary choice.
Basically, the more I look at it, the more I sense some kind of ulterior desperation attempt behind the discrediting of the iPhone 6’s durability. Samsung Electronics is having their lunch eaten by their infatuation with trying to take down Apple that they are railroading themselves in a similar way that the PC makers did themselves in.
