Keizer reports, “Andrew Ladbrook, a senior analyst at Informa, was more damning in his take. ‘Despite some very high specifications and a very attractive unique design, the Google Q device is underwhelming,’ said Ladbrook in an email today. ‘The majority of the features can already be found in Apple’s Airport Express devices and Apple TV.’ And Ladbrook questioned Google’s Nexus Q strategy. ‘It is also an ill fit into Google’s wider Android strategy… Its high price point will depress sales, reducing its role as a complement to the Android handsets,’ said Ladbrook. ‘Google [Nexus] Q devices are unlikely to have the same lock-in effect as Apple’s cheaper Airport Express and Apple TV.’”
“According to current Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple sold 2.8 million Apple TV devices last year. But as of late May, Cook said during an interview at the Wall Street Journal‘s All Things Digital conference, approximately 2.7 million Apple TVs had been sold in 2012, putting it on a sales pace of about 6.5 million units. That would represent a 132% year-to-year growth rate,” Keizer reports. “The Nexus Q, like the Nexus 7 tablet that Google also introduced yesterday, will be sold only through the Google Play store. Unlike Apple, which has a large chain of brick-and-mortar stores and long-established relationships with other retailers, Google has neither.”
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MacDailyNews Take: That the Nexus Q was launched at all is inexplicable. We haven’t seen a product so obviously DOA at launch since Microsoft’s Zune.
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