“Google just alerted customers who preordered its Nexus Q media streaming device that it will not ship in mid-July as planned,” Liz Gannes reports for AllThingsD. “However, it is rewarding all those who have already put in their orders for the $299 device by sending out free Nexus Qs.”
MacDailyNews Take: All three of them.
Gannes reports, “Google said in an email sent to those who preordered that it ‘heard initial feedback from users that they want Nexus Q to do even more than it does today. In response, we have decided to postpone the consumer launch of Nexus Q while we work on making it even better.’ …[Nexus Q] only works with Android devices and it doesn’t run apps, and it costs $200 more [than Apple TV].
Read more in the full article here.
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MacDailyNews Take: What we wrote on June 27, 2012, the day Google unveiled the Nexus Q:
That not-so-minor price discrepancy vs. Apple TV dooms this device. Google’s nuts. Asking cheapskate Android settlers to pay $200 more than iOS users to be able to stream content from their phones and tablets to their TVs is quite the effective advertisement for not only Apple TVs, but iPhones, iPads, iPod touch, iTunes Store; in short: the entire rich, vibrant, and non-fragmented iOS ecosystem.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Ah! true DOA!!
At least Microsoft is one up on Google. Microsoft’s Kin phones lasted for 1 week before they were abandoned. Google’s Nexus Q is dead aborning. This Google’s juvenile character, talking and acting big to boost its inflated ego, but ejaculating prematurely.
YES!! HAHAHA
Good call MDN!!! Your June 27 analysis was spot-on.
It wasn’t customers, it was the tech press who kept asking what the hell is this thing and who through hell is going to buy it?
One of the few time in my life I do not mind hearing “I told you so!”
Yup. Free seems like the right price.
…it will not ship in mid-July as planned…
And on the 31st of July, they release this statement?
Well duh!
Heh heh. They said “Google’s nuts.”
Meanwhile Apple sells 1.3M Apple TVs in the previous quarter.
…initial feedback from users that they want Nexus Q to do even more than it does today
Or how about: They want the Nexus Q to do what it does now with an actual/factual user-friendly interface, as opposed to the horrorshow GUI and remote it has now. That would help!
Meanwhile: ~~vapor~~ware~~
…”…initial feedback from users that they want Nexus Q to do even more than it does today…”
In other words, “You expect me to pay $300 for a device that does NOTHING???
The initial feed ack for the Nexus Q was, ” I want my money Back!” Google then consider how much lt would cost to bury the devices in the landfill. Hell, cheaper to let the customer depose of it. Free to all!
The New York Times headline was “Google Delays the Nexus Q After Poor Reviews”.
Same story, but NYT spins it negative, Google spins it positive.
“Poor Reviews” = “feedback from users that they want Nexus Q to do even more than it does today”
“Delay” = “postpone … while we work on making it even better”
(emphasis added)
Well Google surely got a lot of positive PR for building this thing in thr USA. I wonder if they actually had hired the workers and bought the equipment to do that. Or perhaps just announceing it to make a jab at Apple for exporting jobs. Or maybe they found that it will cost way more than they can sell it for if they trully want to make it in the US. Or maybe most likely just another Google Beta.
Hah…
Think if Apple did this with their products. It would go to hell for them.
“Google, for ever beta. Because we can”
This one is not even DOA. It’s DBA (Dead Before Arrival).