“74 days after the iPhone was introduced at $600 a pop (six hundred dollars), one million were sold. The Droid, at $200: 1.05 million. The Nexus One? An estimated 135,000 units. By any measure, that’s a total sales flop,” Jesus Diaz reports for Gizmodo. “Sure, the Nexus One is only sold online and though T-Mobile, but 135,000 units is a ridiculously tiny amount.”
“Even worse: The sales rate is declining. After its first month, the Nexus One sold 80,000 units. That’s means that only 55,000 additional units sold in the next month,” Diaz reports. “For a cellphone that is being named and talked about every single day by every single tech publication, and often mentioned in the mainstream media, that’s quite embarrassing.”
Diaz notes, “Apple’s iPad sold online, for a higher price and without no phone capabilities, yet it sold an estimated 152,000 units in the first weekend.”
MacDailyNews Note: That iPad figure is an unofficial guestimate.
Diaz continues, “Somewhere in Cupertino, someone is laughing this morning.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Maddog” for the heads up.]
THUD.
Freight train of reality . . .
iPad online sales (pre-orders) estimated at over 120,000 in the FIRST DAY.
Google Phone: 135,000 (74 days)
Apple iPad: 120,000 (1 day)
Maybe they should have called it “karma”
I hear the sound of squirrel nuts being thrown around.
Stop tugging it MDN!
Google Is Evil!
Does anybody think that there is a possibility that Eric and his cronies lay awake some nights, wondering if they made the right decision to screw Apple, and get into Apples game? Do they worry that in 2 or 3 years, Apple has successfully entered the mobile ad space and cost Google revenue by creating a competitor where one would not have been, and by losing their access to be there on the iPhone. If they have not, they should, because it is a very, very real possibility. Steve has publicly thrown down the gauntlet. Now if you will excuse me, I’m gonna grab some popcorn and watch this Battle of the Decade!
Goople can still save it. New ad: “Buy one Nexus one POS and get FOUR POS for free!”
My brother in law bought a Nexus One last Friday.
We went skiing over the weekend.
He spent an hour comparing iPhone to Nexus.
On Monday – he returned Nexus for $50 restock fee.
We now have a proud new iPhone owner.
70 Mil + 1
Google is not evil, but it has a cancer, that’s for sure. A cancer that needs to be dealt with, and soon.
@nomoremsbs
you nailed it, except you forgot something that could
be even bigger
access to the iPad
@ Hotinplaya
Good Point! And all the Devices to come that will use iPhone O.S.
Comparing Nexus One sales figures to iPhone – seems reasonable. But comparing them to the iPad guestimates is comparing oranges to apples.
“… higher price and without no phone capabilities…”
Preach it brother.
“higher price and without no phone capabilities”
Not offering no opinion here.
I do like the graphics, MDN’s and Gizmodo’s.
To be fair, the Nexus sales were also an “estimate”, and we don’t know by whom, or how reliable that estimate is.
That 152,000 estimate represents everything wrong with tech journalism in a nutshell.
The figure is from “some guy” and is based on a random sampling of all Apple order numbers for the weekend. There’s no way to determine which of those orders, other than the ones actually submitted, were for iPads.
Yet this number has been propagated as some kind of reliable statistic by Giz and a slew of other publications.
Tech journalism today is an absolute shitshow.
The laughter is not limited to Cupertino…
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And just stop and consider that Apple pulled in 3x the revenue with their 1M iPhones…
“Somewhere in Cupertino, someone is laughing this morning.”
Should read: “People everywhere are laughing this morning!”
The Nexus has extreme usability problems because Google does not yet have the design and reverse engineering staff to copy Apple’s IP fast enough. Where the Nexus really shines, look for features that were joint projects with apple. The top brass at apple are a cross between very successful computer scientists that are rooted in the quantitative trying to make algorithms apply to qualitative… the other top brass are extraordinarily successful classified ad salesmen and people who’ve been at Google since it is was a startup.
So why does Google want to build a phone? Because they want to own your mobile data and insure that you feed their mobile classified ad system, do remember that adwords sales account for 97% of their revenue, which will slip if Apple partners for any module/app with anyone else besides google.
Do no evil as long as you give us all your data so we can make money from it and sell your ideas back to you.
edit… should say “top brass at google”
There’s still time to bury the Nexus, abandon Android to the likes of Motorola, make up with Apple, and maintain a presence on what will become the dominant mobile platform of the future. That is the only sound strategic course for Google. Sadly for them, hubris and arrogance rule the day.
I bought the HTC hero on Sprint. Tried to like it due to huge discount over iPhone monthly bill. After 2 months I added a overdrive 3g/4g hotspot and now use my old iPhone with unlimeted skype and it works great. I gave my daughter the Hero and use her Blackberry for business. I still use my iPhone and will go back when my contract is up with sprint. The overdrive is only 3g now. 4g is supposed to rolll out here in Florida by this summer….meaning next spring. Promising 10x speed and unlimited use with 4g. It works well with 3g now, can’t wait for speed bump. I bought it with ipad in mind, nut iPhone and laptop work really well now.
Proof positive that ‘truth’ and American ‘journalism’ are strangers.