Good reality check: Just the facts baby!
Sales of Google’s Nexus One phone in the US have paled in comparison to the iPhone.
After 74 days, the Nexus One has sold an estimated 135,000 units, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. By that point in 2007, Apple announced it had sold a million iPhones.
A total flop.
Phillip Elmer-DeWitt reports the big news: Apple sells 50,000 iPads in two hours.
Compare this with the First week of Nexus One sales: 20,000.
The first pre-orders show an amazing interest for the new Apple iPad.
The US Apple store says:
iPad pre-order limit: two per customer.
If Saturday delivery is not available in your area, iPad will be delivered on April 5.
To pre-order go here.
The mess is getting messier.
Headlines from the Google Mobile Help Forum:
• Is the Nexus One nothing more than a phone still in Beta?
• Does anyone have a solution to “hanging” or “frozen” white screen with 3 skateboarding android robots?
• How funny.. The screen will time out and lock while you are talking on the phone.
• How do I return nexus one google phone? it is flimsy, icons and text too small, unresponsive, and no google support.
• If you have an positive experience with the N1 can we hear from you???
• WHY DOESN’T THE TOUCHSCREEN WORK PROPERLY!!!???
• Terrible service by Google.
• Where do we post defects?
• Is there a number for Google Support?
• One of my friends in Korea wants to start a business with Nexus One.
Good luck!
Do you remember the story of JVC’s VHS versus Sony’s BETAMAX?
Yes, Sony’s format was better with more reproduction quality, but…
JVC’s had more movies available and at the end of the day, content prevailed over technology.
Well, now you can understand why Brian Marshall says that “for Apple, content is the focus of the tablet.”
Look at the Google Phone, the Super Phone, the “iPhone Killer”…
The Nexus One could be better as a product (it’s not) but the iPhone has these 100.000 applications, so the game is over.
The same is going to happen with the new upcoming tablets.
The key for the success of the Apple one will be not the hardware but the software.
And just channeling these 100.000 applications to the new tablet will be enough to win the war.
The Apple tablet will have, I am sure, brilliant hardware.
Superb design.
Great usability.
Magnificent navigation tools…
But, again, it’s the software, stupid!
It’s the wine, not the bottle.
Or as the British used to say when the first computers were presented as “the” solution to have better education in the scholols:
“Garbage IN, Garbage Out”
So, good news for media companies and other content-driven providers.
The Apple tablet loves your content.
Apple wants your content.
Apple needs your content.
Music content made the difference for the iTunes and iPod.
So Multimedia content will make the difference for the Apple iTablet.
Are you ready?
Well, if your newspaper still dosen’t have an iPhone application, I don’t believe you.
You are NOT ready.
And shame to you and to your IT people!
UPDATE:
INNOVATION’s Javier Zarracina writes from Boston, and he is absolutely right, that Visual Content will be a key-issue in the success of these tablet.
Done not just by decorators, but by Visual Journalists.
They must be also counting the days until they can play and work with this fantastic device.
Thanks, Javier!
We don’t have the tablets, but the tablet’s war is coming.
Google and HTC versus the Appple iSlate.
Competition is always good.
But this is a war for a non-existing market!
And today Google is launching in San Francisco its Nexus One phone, presented as the “iPhone killer.”
Follow the news here at the Gizmodo Liveblog.
