wraggster
November 1st, 2012, 21:04
Google and Asustek remain cagey on revealing actual sales figures.
Sales of Asustek’s Nexus 7 are creeping ever closer to the one million per month mark, yet the Taiwanese manufacturer remains reluctant to reveal specific sales figures.
Having caused something of a stir upon its release earlier this year due to its low starting price of $199, both Google and Asustek have been hesitant in coming forward with actual sales figures for the siven-inch tablet. However, Asustek’s executives offered the most revealing indication yet at the company’s third-quarter earning conference earlier this week.
David Chang, chief financial officer at Asustek, commented: “At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then maybe 600-700K. This latest month, it was close to one million.”
Earlier this month, a number of tech blogs were suggesting third-quarter sales estimates of 800,000-1 million Nexus 7s based on an analysis of Google’s revenue figures, yet Asustek’s recent comments indicate that the actual number was most likely higher.
Meanwhile, research firm Strategy Analytics revealed that 25 million tablets were sold worldwide in the third-quarter, with Apple’s iPad shifting 14 million units during that period.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/nexus-7-nears-one-million-sales-per-month/019740
Sales of Asustek’s Nexus 7 are creeping ever closer to the one million per month mark, yet the Taiwanese manufacturer remains reluctant to reveal specific sales figures.
Having caused something of a stir upon its release earlier this year due to its low starting price of $199, both Google and Asustek have been hesitant in coming forward with actual sales figures for the siven-inch tablet. However, Asustek’s executives offered the most revealing indication yet at the company’s third-quarter earning conference earlier this week.
David Chang, chief financial officer at Asustek, commented: “At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then maybe 600-700K. This latest month, it was close to one million.”
Earlier this month, a number of tech blogs were suggesting third-quarter sales estimates of 800,000-1 million Nexus 7s based on an analysis of Google’s revenue figures, yet Asustek’s recent comments indicate that the actual number was most likely higher.
Meanwhile, research firm Strategy Analytics revealed that 25 million tablets were sold worldwide in the third-quarter, with Apple’s iPad shifting 14 million units during that period.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/nexus-7-nears-one-million-sales-per-month/019740