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| Nexus 7 sales hit one million per month |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-31 22:36:57 |
| "At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then maybe 600, 700K. This latest month, it was close to 1 million," Asustek Chief Financial Officer David Chang told The Wall Street Journal. Very much deserved. You can pry my beloved Alexis (my Nexus 7's name, normally written in Hangul but OSNews can't render it) from my cold, dead hands. I don't think I've ever had a device that I liked more than this thing. Note this is sales, not shipped. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by terra |
| By gan17 on 2012-11-02 01:16:24 |
| Oh gawd!! Don't tell me you're going to start posting K-Pop and Gagnam/Namgam/Gangbang/What everitscalled news next?! |
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| RE[2]: An Article on WSJ?!!! |
| By shinkou on 2012-11-02 02:08:37 |
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To clear things up, I'm neither Google's nor Apple's fanboy. And I'm disappointed by the quality. Yes, I know it's a blog post, but still... Hey! It's the WSJ! Having that said, comparing all iPads' sales to Nexus 7's is just not appropriate IMO. It's like comparing all Windows laptops' sales to the Macbook Air's. Well, you can do so, but it says nothing meaningful. |
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| RE[2]: An Article on WSJ?!!! |
| By shinkou on 2012-11-02 02:20:54 |
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Tell me if my common sense is skewed, but I think it would be more appropriate to compare the sales like iPad 4 vs Nexus 7, OR iPad Mini vs Nexus 7 |
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| RE: Great |
| By karunko on 2012-11-02 07:50:56 |
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> But lets revisit this after the iPad Mini has had an affect on the market. I don't think this will last long. But... but... I thought nobody wanted a 7-inch tablet, that they were going to be DOA, yadda yadda yadda?!? Oh, I forgot: the iPad mini is 7.87-inch, an entirely different beast! RT. PS: Sorry, I couldn't resist. Still, anyone insisting on the 0.87-inch difference must have some nerve. What about the good old "Only fools and dead men don't change their minds"? |
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| RE[4]: Comment by terra |
| By Morgan on 2012-11-02 10:11:13 |
| If you're interested, www.viki.com is an excellent source for free Korean television. They offer content from several Asian countries, in fact, but it seems the emphasis there is on Korea. |
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| RE: Quarterly sales.... |
| By Morgan on 2012-11-02 10:18:15 |
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> Not too bad for the Nexus 7, considering the only prominent advertising it got was Google's front page for a few days. You're kidding right? The entire technology blogosphere was a hugely successful advertising platform for it. In my experience there were no negative reviews of it, and the gushing reviews drowned the bland ones out by far. Pretty much everyone I know had heard about it from somewhere, and my circles include everything from fellow techs to complete Luddites and a broad selection in between. And don't forget the obvious connection to Android smartphones; most of the non techies I have talked to wanted to know if it was the new "Droid tablet" or a new Samsung Note-style phone. /BTW I do agree with the rest of your post, just felt like commenting on that one thing. :) Edited 2012-11-02 10:24 UTC |
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| RE[2]: Great |
| By Morgan on 2012-11-02 10:21:36 |
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Just like nobody wanted a netbook, Apple wasn't going to make a compromised laptop, then we get the MacBook Air. And yes, I know the MBA is more of an ultraportable than a netbook in dimensions and speed, but in (lack of) expandability it lines up better with the latter. It's still a compromised design. And yet I still drool over it... |
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| RE: I didn't expected this |
| By adinas on 2012-11-02 12:33:43 |
| Is your first Korean? |
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| RE: Runs Ubuntu |
| By henderson101 on 2012-11-02 14:47:51 |
| Tempted to do this as Android isn't all I hoped it would be. |
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| RE[4]: Comment by terra |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-11-02 17:49:55 |
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Korean is very easy, even animals can learn it: http://blogs.discovermagazine.co... |
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