by edans
BlackBerry PlayBook sales miss targets by over 90% at major retailer, ‘much higher’ return rate than XOOM (Jonathan S. Geller/BGR)
[Via Techmeme]
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook sales miss targets by over 90% at major retailer, ‘much higher’ return rate than XOOM — According to a trusted source from a major big box retailer, sales of RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook have fallen far short of expectations. In addition, we’re told that the PlayBook …[More]
Granted this is just one retailer. But RIM may be doing the same thing Samsung did – claim lots of sales because they moved them in the sales channel – but they mostly sit on the retailer’s shelves.
And with all the recent problems with batches of the Playbook – they had to recall some units and an update appears to kill battery life – this sort of news is not good at all.
A Man With A Ph.D. 