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Update of 20 November 2013, edited by James Martiradonna. Into Yesterday two conflicting reports began to circulate on the web about the Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch Samsung that was supposed to precede and defuse iWatch . On the one hand, told Reuters sales of nearly 1 million devices on the other, the BusinessKorea envisaged instead a tragic trend, with a sold even that did not exceed 50,000 units after two months of official debut. In fact, it all started from a misunderstanding error in the article by Reuters : the flop, in other words, is confirmed and it is not even the worst news.

Into First of all, 800,000 were not the trinkets sold but those delivered , that is, those produced and left to rot in shops and stores. The confirmed The Verge with an update ad hoc. In fact, it was obvious that something was not going the right way, especially when the executive vice president of Samsung David Eun has been given to food metaphors, although, to be honest, we never expected such a result. According to the reconstruction of Geek.com, who could get their hands on confidential documents from Samsung, more than 30% of the Galaxy Gear are returned a few days of purchase .

Into The company is currently investigating the origins of failure, may be caused by poor battery life (not even 24 hours), or perhaps the lack of social features, but perhaps it is the immaturity of the goods ended up disappoint the expectations of users . And to realize this, just take a look at the first reviews that are flocked on the Web at this time. David Pogue of The New York Times, for example, has defined the Galaxy Gear gadgets as an “unreliable and frustrating,” For the Enquirer, “the features of which has not worth the money it costs.” Engadget writes that “needs time to grow up “while The Verge awarded him a paltry score of 4 out of 10 . And we talk about the next big thing Samsung, mica and fig pizza.

Into Apparently, the rush was ill-advised the South Korean giant. In an attempt to burn at the time iWatch, ended up burning instead an important opportunity. And now, again, it’s back to talk about iWatch, and the news that Apple hides in the cylinder.

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Into It had to tear up the time of the Apple iWatch, but apart arrive earlier, did not conclude much more. The Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch by $ 299 from Samsung launched in September, has not had the expected success. According BusinessKorea, since the debut today it would have been less than 50,000 copies sold despite a bell very aggressive marketing and the initial expectations of experts and analysts.

Into The fact is that the product was not yet ripe for the general public , and read so many negative reviews on the Web witness. At the conference Ignition New York organized by Business Insider and focused on the digital future, the executive vice president of Samsung David Eun has amesso the immaturity of the product. The Gear, he explained, is like a green tomato which will soon become red, ripe:

Into When you’re dealing with innovation and startups, I always make an analogy with a small green tomato. You have to deal with the green tomatoes that need to heal and carry on until the time of maturity.
But you must be careful not to pick the green tomatoes too soon, and you must also make sure not to criticize too much of a green tomato for not have gotten even a big red tomato.
is a 1.0 device. I love it, but it’s still at version 1.0. Personally, I do not think that people will have recognized the proper credit for having innovated and launched him. It was not easy to integrate all these features into a single object. But I assure you that in time this will become something big and red.

Into short, for the moment the idea of ??smartwatch-companion-at least in this incarnation-has not caught on among users, but who knows for the future. It is known that Sony, Google and Apple are working for some time on a similar device, expected to debut with next year.

Into According to what little we know, the iWatch should be powered by iOS 7, supported by features of monitoring of vital functions and home automation, and features a design different for men and women. For the rest, the mystery adds to the legend, only hope that the final product would live up to.

update. On the Web there is a curious dichotomy. On the one hand BusinessKorea reported numbers from Desert of the Tartars on the other, while admitting the immaturity of Gear, Samsung announced sales exceeding expectations even . The official numbers, taken from Reuters, amounted to approximately 800,000 units sold in 2 months on the market, a result infinitely superior to the one prophesied by BusinessKorea and taken up by important companies such as Apple-centric MacRumors same. This implies that our preliminary analysis was incorrect and that, indeed, there is much interested in the part of the audience for this kind of gadget. Which, after all, plays back in favor of Cupertino.