The trick behind the Galaxy 5 million note sold

From this morning, all over the internet has run like the wind: Samsung has just reached the 5 million units of the Galaxy Note. If we are talking about this model with its 5.3 “screen is a hybrid between smartphone and tablet.

Nobody doubted that the experiment was risky, but between good advertising and performance, much more than correct, the Galaxy Note has triumphed. And is that 5 million sales a lot of sales, but … a trick with that figure? For as often happens, always in these cases, if no catch.

Note: The Galaxy went on sale in October 2011, ie, five months before the sale. The figure comes out beautiful, 5 months – 5 million, but the catch is that they are not sales, but distributions. In early February, we learned that the Galaxy Note had reached 2 million in sales. How can it be that in just one month make 3 million more sales? Just because it is not possible.

When Samsung has spoken of the figures has reached its smartabphone in no case have said that they were sales, but shipments. Why is this difference so important? Because the achievement of selling 5 million in 5 months is not real, and we have to wait until enough units are sold to achieve that. And surely a lot, because as we said, the first 2 million were sold in 4 months, so at least take another 6 months to sell the next 3 billion, and that being quite positive.

The success of the experiment Note Galaxy is not bad, has reached great numbers, but you have to differentiate well between units sold and distributed, because it has nothing to do. We will have to see how sales continue and how it affects the release of its new Galaxy Note 10.1, a model that offers better insurance coverage among users, since in this case it is something much more like a tablet and not something intermediate, for many still wonder what to use.