The Nexus One “has just had its price slashed,” Bunker reports.
“Up until today, anyone in the US who’d wanted to upgrade to the Nexus One on T-Mobile had to pay out $379,” Bunker reports. “With the price cut in effect, this figure stands at $279… Not only that, but anyone who’s already upgraded receive a $100 refund.”
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Just got out the gate and already a price drop to move units because its NOT SELLING as they had hope for. Even the BS story about Woz making it his favorite is all fabricated BS! ahahaha
How big is this MDN take gonna be??
Motorola must be relieved.
Sounds hauntingly familiar…
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OUCH, Google. Last week, a cell provider offered a free Palm Pixi with the purchase of a Palm Pre, not too unlike RIMM’s 2 fer 1 BB offer.
I guess you guys forgot the first gen iPhone did the same thing within the first month
They can have it no matter what the price, I will stick with my iPhone.
Gotta love this: a Google Nexus One ad right to the left… at least at this particular view…
@Nozrac…. I think it was two months, and $200 bucks.
@Nosrac ,
Yet another move right out of Apple’s playbook…is there anything these companies won’t copy from Apple?
LOL!
MW/coming…as in Steve must be coming in his pants right now…
The iPhone’s price cut was two months after it went on sale, not two WEEKS. That’s just bad. And Apple’s cut wasn’t due to poor sales, it was due to revised deals with carriers where they paid partial subsidies.
“Next!”
You know they are all shaking in their boots waiting for Apple’s next iPhone. With those kind of sales the R&D;costs become prohibitive. They can only hope to produce poor copies of the iPhone. If, no, when Apple goes to multiple carriers it will only get worse for their competitors.
Also remember that iPhone was $499 (4GB) and $599 (8 GB) WITH two-year contract…and sold one million units in a little over two months. The fact that Nexus One started at a lower price point, and only sold 20,000 out of the gate is nothing less than pathetic.
This was Googles big chance before 9 months of iSlate, 4.0 software, 4G iPhone. Apple is got to be loving it right now… Suck for Google to be pulling a “Zune”
Love your takes on these phones, MDN. I guess we can watch for the “strikethrough” list to grow over the next few months, eh?
It pretty simply really and the fact that the people running google did not understand that people are smart enough to think to themselfs “why buy a iPhone knock off from a company with no support and half as many key features app store iTunes etc when I could buy the real iPhone” and you have to think how many of those 20,000 were friends and relitives of people involved in making the phone I would have thought they’d been smarter
As a “Day 1” iPhone buyer, I remember the price drop happened in the fall, *after* Apple had sold a million iPhones. Steve said that Apple did it to “go for it” for Christmas sales. It sounded like a change in strategy based on the phenomenal and unprecedented (and unexpected) success of the iPhone.
When there was a minor stink about a price drop so soon after introduction (mostly by people who weren’t iPhone owners), Steve soothed the upset with a $100 Apple Store gift certificate.
That whole situation is worlds apart from Google’s incredible flop forcing a retroactive price drop on a brand new product. When you consider how heavily the Nexus has been advertised (I’ve been seeing Google ads for it everywhere), it’s a failure of colossus proportions. I think Google thought their “partners” weren’t selling enough phones and decided it was worth the risk to burn them because Google could just do it themselves and now Google’s in a real predicament because both strategies have failed.
— Marc
Sounds like there will not be any Android phone called a “Nexus Two,” just as there was no “G2” either.
It’s the Next Bust.
This is looking rather like the parade of “iPod killers” we had a few years ago.
I suppose Win mobile 7 is the next iPhone killer on the horizon.
Nexus SCUM.
Does that mean that the huge early-termination fees will also be reduced by $100? Or are those staying where they are?
@TZX4
Didn’t you hear? . . . They just pushed that horizon back a year. In the meantime, a 4th generation iPhone will have been on the market for at least six months, and already due for an update.
If the iSlate (or whatever) is a success, Mac OSes will have captured everything.
I can’t bear to respond to the “Budget Director/old computers” thread.
I studied Political Science, American and World History in college. . . . The people in that thread sound like they’re all still in elementary school.
But wait, Leo Laporte has been twittering all the ways N1 is better than iPhone. I like Leo but he tends to get overly excited when he gets what he thinks will be an iphone killer. And then in a few weeks he’s back on his iPhone.
@ zmarc
(I expected it)
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Another move stolen from Apple’s playbook.
Damn Jerry.
You beat me to the very words!
Echoes of Zune
zune
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And you can go to Apple.com and help out other humans in Haiti.
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/buyCharityGiftWizard
Please.
And when New York state is hit by an earthquake again, I wonder who will respond.
Nexus schmexus… really expected more from Google, more than this scam Super Google phone crap.
They took a page from the M$ marketing book.
Make a lot of wind, then produce some crappy Apple imitation. And count on the fact that millions of suckers will fall for the scam.
Apple’s iPhone has such a reputation that buying another one, as the Nexus One, will often be the result of an anti-Apple mood.
Google made a Zune…
For those who have already bought a Nexus return before the 14 day deadline or pay the piper.
For those thinking about buying a Nexus – wait another month for
the next $100 drop.
Define upgrade.
@ Ampar
You mean like the millions in dollars and services donated by Canada to the USA for Hurricane Katrina relief , or the millions in dollars and services sent by Canada to assist with the New York 9/11 disaster?
Wonder no more.
Googles’ Nexus One is a dead man walking!
I’m getting one. I need it to go with my Zune so I can use them as bookends.
And it kept Apple’s name firmly in the news almost daily for a week. Anyone purchasing Christmas gifts knew about the iPhone’s story… it’s selling a million, the price drop, the rebate… People who I didn’t think followed technical news were asking me about the price drop… because they had all heard/read it on non-technical sites!
Knowing how things are ran at Apple, I wouldn’t doubt that it was planned to happen EXACTLY that way.
I’m waiting for the BOGO offer.
</sarcasm>
Any similarity beetween the Google phone and Apple’s iPhone is purely a figment of the writer’s imagination. The iPhone was a sensational hit from Day One, with or without a price cut. Three years later, the iPhone is still light years ahead of the so-called competition. How many iPhone wannabe’s have come and gone in that time period, never to be seen again?
The iPhone had a big up front price cut. Apple still got the same money per iPhone sale. It just came from the cell carrier and not the cell phone buyer.
This is different. Google is selling at break even just to dump a poor iPhone imitation before the public catch on.
I moved to sprint. Only because of price. I got an HTC Hero which is basically the Nexus 1. It is capable many things, but I would MUCH prefer my iPhone and still use it more at home thane I use HTC. iPhone is so much better than next closest thing.
“$100 off the price of the handset for certain existing customers”..
that is not a price cut… that’s a provider discount!
Google is still selling the Nexus at $530 unlocked.
Keep spreading the FUD.
There was a Mr. Nexus on the old Invaders TV show. Yes, he was one of the bad guys.