“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.]
I’ve told this story once on the boards, but I’ll repeat it here for those that missed it.
A little over a week ago I was leaving for Las Vegas. On the very same day as I was leaving, the radio in the iPhone went t*ts up. Couldn’t make calls, SMS or surf.
Arrive in Vegas late, so the next morning I bring up Apple web site and make a genius appointment for just after lunch. After 30 min in Apple store, I walk out with brand new iPhone (and its beautiful battery goodness). No cost to me except 30 min of my time.
How long would I have been phoneless had I been using a Nexus One?
Ben Dover:
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iPhone 3Gs sold 1.6 Million in the first 7 days! NOT 78 days! Geez!
Why do they insist on comparing the Droid to the iPhone 1G?
iPhone 3Gs is TOTALLY more comparable in price and features to the Droid.
They just want to give Moto an unfair advantage because of how pathetic they have become
Google, Chrome, Android: All your privacy are belong to us !!
Jesus Diaz said “and without no phone capabilities” referring to the iPad.
He was wrong both grammatically and in his conclusion.
I will be using the iPad to phone.
Wait till Verizon gets it and then do the math… T-Mobile sucks more the AT&T;.
The Google phone is clearly Mark 1. We will have to wait and see if they learn their lessons and come out with something better.
They have an OS that is similar in structure to the Apple OSes. This means they have the potential to improve whereas RIM and Windows are stuck.
Apple need to keep the pace of development up because they don’t want others catching up with them as with Windows.