Steve Jobs' reality distortion

Some interesting misstatements by Jobs at the iPad 2 announcement.

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Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on truth

Apple twisted facts and used an erroneous quotation to try to convince
crowds that all other tablets had no shot at de-throning the iPad in 2011.

In what seems like a ritual at this point, I watched Apple's iPad 2
keynote in disbelief, noting the factual errors that kept coming up minute
after minute.

"First dual core tablet to ship in volume." That's funny, I tested a Dell
(DELL) Streak 7, which had a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip in January.
They've been shipping ever since on T-Mobile.

In volume.

Of course, the Motorola (MMI) XOOM also has this same dual core processor
and is certainly shipping in volume as well. In fact, I've been using an
Android phone (the Atrix) with a dual core chip for weeks and it wasn't
the first to ship in volume. As for Apple (AAPL), they haven't shipped
one iPad 2 yet -- iPad 2's hit shelves on March 11.
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That was just the beginning. He next pulled out a thoroughly debunked,
mis-translated quote from a Samsung VP:

"As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive... around two million. In
terms of sell-out we believe it was quite small (actually 'smooth')."

Some people only hear what they want to hear, but that quote should have
ended with "quite smooth." That translation was officially corrected a
long time ago. Here's the recording. Shame on Apple Keynote fact-
checkers, if such a role even exists.

That leads us to:

Both Apple and Samsung measure sales the same way -- into the channel.
Apple has just as many points of sale for the iPad as Samsung has for the
Tab and likely many more. So Samsung sold 2 million (in the last quarter)
in 2010. Apple sold 14.8 million (in three quarters). That seems like a
pretty fair comparison.

Apple would have needed to sell 3.2 million more to reach 90% of 2010's
tablet market share against just Samsung alone (in triple the time).
That's not including all of the Android-powered Nooks out there, those
cheap $100 Androids you can buy at Walgreens or Amazon and even Windows-
powered Tablet PCs (which are mentioned two bullet points above!). If you
choose to include the Kindle, Apple may not have even reached 50% of the
market.

Perhaps Jobs meant market share of tablets that start with the letter "I."

And finally, pricing:
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http://tinyurl.com/5rtwccv

Note: Particularly small-minded of Jobs to misquote the Samsung VP.

RonB
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