MacDailyNews Note: Apple sold one million iPhone 3G units in its first weekend and then repeated the feat, selling over one million iPhone 3GS units in its first weekend. The first month estimate for the iPhone 3G was roughly 3 million units. In other words, Nexus One, in a market paved by Apple’s original iPhone and primed by Apple’s marketing might, sold roughly 1/38th the number of iPhone 3G units that Apple sold in its debut month.
Morrison continues, “Observers have also been skeptical about Google’s decision to spend virtually nothing advertising the Nexus. Google briefly pitched the phone on its home page, but the link quickly disappeared… Perhaps more importantly, the early hype around the Nexus was quickly overshadowed by a series of reports about connectivity snafus, customer service shortcomings and eye-opening ‘recovery’ fees.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: LG Voyager, HTC Touch, BlackBerry Bold, Samsung Omnia, Sony Ericsson Xperia, BlackBerry Storm, Palm Pre, BlackBerry Storm 2, Motorola Droid, Google’s rebadged HTC Nexus One… Next?!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
Hahahaha now in spanish jajajajaja htc what?
Not counting units returned, Google will sell 4 next month…
*shrug*
perhaps March will be better.
MaWo: ‘wanted’. As in, ‘not’.
And in a related announcement, Apple changes the name of the iPhone to iPwned…
Nexus None
@Reggi…
nice
On a related topic, ‘What type of meat do Catholics eat on Friday?’
you guessed it…
hahahahaha
And that would mean app sales are ????
is 80,000 a month that bad?
Myself I am waiting to trade in my iPhone till the Korean phone “bada” is coupled with with the MS search service, just so I can say the name whenever people ask what kind of phone I use.
(for any who are whit impaired: That’s a joke, son)
@rw
Yes. It’s the new iPhone Killer remember. So let me repeat.
“is 80,000 a month that bad?”
Yes its a massive failure!
I’m sure the rumored Google Tablet will perform just as well. Stick to Search Google! Until we decide to take that from you as well.
It is particularly troubling for Android since we are approaching the launch of the next iPhone. The iPhone will be an even tougher competitor. This does not bode well for those unable to compete with the current iPhone version, launched last June, with their current products. Further, they have the advantage of dissecting the iPhone for more nearly 3 years and still can’t figure out how to best it.
Next iPhone killer?
iPhone 4G, powered by Apple’s A4
Morrison, “Google briefly pitched the phone on its home page, but the link quickly disappeared…”
I can’t remember the last time I visited or even seen Google’s home page.
Can somebody post the link so I can copy and paste it into the address bar. For the life of me, I tried typing it in but I can’t get past ‘goo’
EVERYone wanted an “open” system like Android!
Apparently, most hardcore geeks didn’t even want one.
Many people claim that they want an open system. But those same people also desire the functionality and ease of use of Apple”s vertically integrated approach that is less open in some respects.
You can have freedom or security. Everything in between is a compromise.
Looks like there will be no phone named “Nexus Two.”
@MDmac
http://www.google.com/phone
Don’t bother, it’s ugly.
How many iPod killers did we have to go through, before everyone finally gave up?
MDN: You must have a strike through list of iPod killers, still, somewhere dusty.
The one thing that could kill the iPod is the iPhone, because it is also an iPod.
80,000?
Wow, that’s a helluva lot more Mac-hating Ubuntu users than I’d EVER have imagined!
@MDMac:
That’s World of Goo, right?
http://2dboy.com/
Is that the iPhone made Smartphones a consumer product, and touchscreens a headline topic. Before that it was BlackBerrys for business mostly.
That and the fact that all these touchscreen phones are copying what Apple made to begin with. (If you deny that—do you really think they’d exist and be ANYTHING like they are if Apple’s years of R&D;hadn’t paved the way?)
So Google should be thanking Apple for selling even THIS many!
I just love that this website is the only place I’ve seen ads for the piece of crap. Nice job MDN.
@Wintermute:
Exactly! “Look! It’s the new iPod killer!” Flop. “Well, this next player is really gonna kill the iPod!” Flop. “Check it out! This one has an FM tuner and you can change the battery! It will kill the iPod for sure!” Flop. “Oh, WTF. We give up.” The iPhone looks like it’s headed the same way.
In a way, it’s depressing. Isn’t it sad to think that in the whole damn world, there’s not one single company with the slightest clue how to compete with Apple? Copying them won’t work, yet that’s all anyone has ever tried. It’s like all the innovation in the entire world is concentrated in Cupertino, and that’s it.
——RM
80,000 minus friends and family of Google employees = 42
The new Apple iPhone 4GA4Bing. I can hardly fricken wait.