Filip Novotny The Samsung Galaxy Gear is the first smartwatch that was expected to be a huge success. However, as the first sales figures show, the Korean manufacturer has sharply overestimated the attractiveness and potential of its first smartwatch. Galaxy Gear sold only 50 thousand units.
Sales figures remained far below initial market expectations. Report portal BusinessKorea it says only 800 to 900 people a day have bought them so far. Considering the media space that Samsung allocated for a new type of product, it is clear that the Korean manufacturer expected much higher popularity.
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The position of the Korean manufacturer succeeded gain server Business Insider. Executive Vice President David Eun highlighted the fact that Samsung was the first major company to bring a smartwatch to market. "Personally, I think a lot of people didn't appreciate that we innovated and got that product out there. It is not easy to integrate all functions into a single device," he responded to the first published numbers.
He also used a peculiar biophilic interpretation: “When it comes to innovation, I like to use the analogy of tomatoes. We currently have small green tomatoes. What we want to do is take care of them and work with them to make them big ripe red tomatoes.”
BusinessKorea editors see the issue more pragmatically. "Samsung's products are not revolutionary, but rather testing. Both customers and manufacturers are more interested in the products that Samsung will release next year."
They also add that the Galaxy Gear is not the only product this year with which Samsung is trying to reconnoitre the terrain. Galaxy Round, the first smartphone with a curved display, is a similar test of new technologies. Even in this case, however, the sales figures indicate a significant lack of public interest. Only a hundred people buy this phone every day.
The first reviews of the device also confirm that, rather than a revolutionary novelty bringing new functions, it is really only a test of customer reaction. And the opportunity to say that we were just us, who used the curved display for the first time, is certainly not to be thrown away either.
But as we know from the fierce battle between iOS and Android, the important thing in the end will not be who was the first, but who is the most successful. Most likely on your own smart watch today they work big companies like Apple, Google or LG, which can still really shuffle the cards in the fight for our wrists.
UPDATED 19/11: It turned out that reports of 50 thousand units sold were not entirely true. You can read the new information <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.
I have already written it here several times, but you are still stupidly biased! when I come to this portal, I want to read about Apple and not defamatory articles about Samsung (and only Samsung)... I read this article on the sammobile portals. Why don't you write here about the fact that Apple is reducing the production of the iPhone 5c, because that is possibly a worse failure than the Gear... You look as if someone is paying you, or in the best case, like a blind sheep... Come to your senses!
You are 100% right, I wouldn't have written that lip. 1*
Don't worry, an article about iPhone 5C production cuts is on the way, and we certainly don't praise Apple for it. The reason why we are writing about a Samsung watch here is that Apple will most likely introduce one of its own in the coming months and it will be very interesting to see if it manages to surpass Samsung or if people will not be interested in such a device. If Samsung sold two billion of its watches, we will also write about that, again in connection with Apple.
In addition, in the article we do not insult Samsung, we do not mock it, we only state the bare fact. In addition, it is not always just Samsung, although it is often offered. We also wrote about the failures of Surface tablets from Microsoft, etc. In my opinion, we cannot just close ourselves to the apple world and pretend that nothing is happening outside of it.
And if you think we're just praising Apple, then you're reading wrong. Just today you can read that there are a lot of complaints about the display quality of the iPad mini.
For example, I find it quite nice that just such an article appears here in connection with the fact that Apple is apparently preparing a similar watch, while Samsung has not (yet) made a dent in the world with it. And there is also a memorable sentence in the article: "It is not important to be the first, but to be successful!"
... said Jesus of Nitra... :-)
With the price and durability of the Galaxy Gear, it's no wonder they only sold 50000 of them.
I still don't understand why I should buy such a device. I don't take it from anyone, but for me, a device that only serves to display what I have on my phone in my pocket on the pidi display just doesn't make sense. I'm not talking about the fact that I have to charge both devices regularly, and they actually discharge faster due to the fact that they are permanently connected. The only way I can imagine it would work is that it will be a completely separate device with a phone (honestly it's still big for phone calls :) ) with the ability to play music (iTunes Match) and limited with some sms / imessage messages. Then I think it makes sense - great stamina, great mobility.
I had this watch... if it weren't for the fact that I want to reduce the price of the galaxy note3 by selling it, I'll keep it... you could get used to it immediately... it's great... the fact that it charges every day only helped me decide to sell them and wait for their successor...
Well, the financial papers say that 800000 were sold. A bit too big a discrepancy in numbers, isn't it? Link here: http://www.financninoviny.cz/zajimavosti/zpravy/chytrych-hodinek-galaxy-gear-prodal-samsung-od-zari-800-000/1009803
if those numbers aren't inflated by the fact that many sellers give them for free with samsung phones. As I have seen in Datart, for example.
At this link: http://www.financninoviny.cz/zajimavosti/zpravy/chytrych-hodinek-galaxy-gear-prodal-samsung-od-zari-800-000/1009803 they write that 800 units were sold in two months. I think that's a pretty big discrepancy in numbers. So where is the truth???