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Google Nexus One Sold Just 20,000 Units In Opening Week?

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by Chris Moor on

A report from mobile app analytics firm, Flurry, Google’s Nexus One handset sold around 20,000 units in its first week sales.

According to the data compiled by Flurry that figure is 12 times less than the Motorola Droid (250,000 first week sales), and 80 times less than the iPhone 3GS at 1.6 million first week sales.

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Flurry monitors usage of more than 10,000 developers’ applications on iPhone and Android platforms. In total, Flurry tracks applications on approximately four out of every five iPhone and Android handsets in the market, generating over 25 million end user sessions per day. To estimate first week sales totals for the Nexus One, myTouch 3G, Droid and iPhone 3GS, Flurry detected new handsets within its system, and then made adjustments to account for varying levels of Flurry application penetration by handset. Flurry additionally crosschecked its estimates against Apple actual sales, released for iPhone 3GS, which totaled more than one million units over the three days, June 19 – 21, 2009.

Ofcourse the Nexus One didn’t have the huge marketing push that saw the Motorola Droid gain huge mainstream coverage, factor that with Google’s online only distribution and higher initial costs, and it’s easy to see why sales were slow in comparison.

[via blog.flurry.com]

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  • Dale Strickland-Clark

    12 times less is not a smaller number. Do the maths. Multiply anything by 12 and it will be more. Write an expression to support your statement. You can’t.

    You want to divide by 12 not multiply. Then we have nice simple maths like (Droids sold in week one)/12 = (Nexus Ones sold in week one).

    In simple English, your sentence could be written correctly as: According to the data compiled by Flurry that figure is one twelfth of the Motorola Droid (250,000 first week sales), and one eightieth of the iPhone 3GS at 1.6 million first week sales.

    Or if you can’t cope with fractions, just turn the numbers around: According to the data compiled by Flurry the Motorola Droid sold 12 times more (250,000 first week sales), and the iPhone 3GS at 1.6 million sold 80 times more in the first week sales.

    I hope that helps.

  • tai

    I think it’s because Google didn’t announce the Phone before they sold it, if they did that, it would’ve been sold more I guess

    And if they would sell it in more countrys they would have more consumers(like me)
    If you take the countrys into credit Droid has higher sells than the IPhone!

  • czcz

    Also because Apple at the time of iPhone launch had/has a massive hardware reputation and following, so most had a general idea of what they were getting. Google, while a great company with their online products has no hw footprint in the current phone market.

  • Adam

    Google promises their phones work with any network carrier, but then doesn’t equip them to work on Tmobile’s 3G network and AT&T’s. As soon as they do that I will buy one.