The $999 price tag on the 7-inch Galaxy Tab will not be cut as Samsung Australia is struggling to keep up with demand, for both their Android based tablet and their Samsung S Android Smartphone, a senior company executive has said.
According to Tyler McGee, Vice President of Telecommunications at Samsung Australia, “demand is outstripping supply with the company set to have a bumper Xmas in their Telecommunications Division.
In the UK Samsung has started stripping back the price of the Tab while globally Samsung has cut production by 50 percent due to soft “sell in” sales.
“My problem right now is supply, demand is good and I am confident that we will meet all our targets.” McGee said.
According to new research from IMS Research Google’s Android-based system will hold 15.2 percent of the tablet market in 2011 – and 28 percent by 2015 however Apple’s iPad will still control most of the market.
Research Group iSuppli said overnight that they expect 15.6 million tablets to ship this year, with 13.8 million of those being iPads. Next year iSuppli expects 57.3 million tablets to ship – 43.7 million of them iPads which represents a significant drop for Apple.
Companies competing against the iPad must contend with the fact that many application developers are gearing their products to the iPad’s specifications, said iSuppli analyst Rhoda Alexander.
