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Flurry: Nexus One Sales Paltry Compared to iPhone, Droid

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Flurry reports that sales of Google's Nexus One haven't even come close to sales of the Motorola Droid and the iPhone, with each beating out Nexus One sales by about eight times.

The mobile analytics firm estimates Google sold just 135,000 devices within the first 74 days the handset was on sale – the same amount of time it took to sell 1 million iPhones.

Google's online-only sales strategy, combined with poor customer service and early reports of device glitches, appear to have hampered sales of the device, according to a report from Goldman Sachs that came out last week. Goldman Sachs estimates Google will sell just 1 million Nexus One devices by the end of the year.

Flurry also reported that sales of the Motorola Droid outpaced sales of the iPhone during its first 74 days on the shelf. About 1.05 million Droids were sold after its November launch on Verizon's network, compared to the 1 million iPhones that launched on AT&T's network within the first 74 days of its debut in July 2007.

Flurry attributed the figures in part to Verizon's larger subscriber base, which was at 89 million when the Droid was launched. By comparison, AT&T's subscriber base sat at just 63.7 million when the iPhone debuted. Also, the Droid was launched during the holiday season with at least $100 million of advertising support.


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  • This actually makes total sense that this "slow roll", consider:
    1. Google needs to have other developers lead the market with the phones -- they don't want to be the lead hardware provider.
    2. HTC is already their OEM so that means it's HTC and Motorolla. Since betting on Motorolla is, well, complicated to say the least, therefore they need to have their own entrant into the market.
    3. DOS lagged Mac for a number of years before jumping to a sustained sixfold larger marketshare of clone PCs -- nearly knocking Mac out of existence, until Jobs pulled rabbit out of his hat.
    4. The likely app delivery platform for these devices will NOT be native apps and the XML/JAVA/AJAX hybrid platform that will create the clone market (and crushes iphone) to become a hardware agnostic mobile app market is a few years out.
    So ... Google may be wonky, they may even be a little treacherous in their world domination intent, but this is not a "fail" it's just the RIGHT smaller step down the road to a larger strategy.

  • Not to bad for a non-phone company with little experience in product sales.

  • Way to go Google.
    Idiots. They're loaded with PhD guys who believe the world is "The Matrix".
    Not only it is hurting them, but also the carrier, in this case T-Mobile, who's working to be innovative also.
    Google's approvach will only help Apple and the Big-2 wireless monsters.

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