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| Nexus 7 sales hit one million per month |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-31 22:36:57 |
| "At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then maybe 600, 700K. This latest month, it was close to 1 million," Asustek Chief Financial Officer David Chang told The Wall Street Journal. Very much deserved. You can pry my beloved Alexis (my Nexus 7's name, normally written in Hangul but OSNews can't render it) from my cold, dead hands. I don't think I've ever had a device that I liked more than this thing. Note this is sales, not shipped. |
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| An Article on WSJ?!!! |
| By shinkou on 2012-11-01 00:26:33 |
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First off, I find the title very misleading, which should be "Nexus 7 sales nearly hit one million *last* month" IMO. Then, in the article, comparing all iPads' sales to Nexus 7's? Are they serious? Edited 2012-11-01 00:27 UTC |
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| 4.2 update? |
| By pooo on 2012-11-01 00:52:50 |
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Anyone know when Nexus 7 owners will be getting the 4.2 update? I really want that multi-user feature. My wife keeps screwing up my settings. It is strange also that even on the play store they are saying "Coming Soon" Nexus 7 have 4.1, not 4.2. WTF? |
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| Comment by terra |
| By terra on 2012-11-01 00:55:36 |
| 알렉시스 ? |
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| RE: An Article on WSJ?!!! |
| By pooo on 2012-11-01 00:55:49 |
| What are you talking about? It is bizarre to me that you managed to take offense at that article. It is very clear about all the things you say it is being misleading about and the comparison to ipad sales says nexus 7 sales "pale in comparison". What would make you happy "really really pale in comparison"?? Would 3 "really"s do it? 4? Do we need other adjectives like "extremely"? |
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| RE: 4.2 update? |
| By gan17 on 2012-11-01 01:02:45 |
| 4.2 will only roll out once the Nexus 4 and 10 get officially released, I think. Sometime around mid-November. No reason why the 7 wouldn't get it. |
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| Quarterly sales.... |
| By gan17 on 2012-11-01 01:31:03 |
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So lets assume it sold 500k units the first month, 600k the second and 700k the third. That's 1.8 million units sold in a quarter. I read somewhere that the iPad shipped around 14 million units worldwide in Q3. Not too bad for the Nexus 7, considering the only prominent advertising it got was Google's front page for a few days. Still, I doubt it'll sustain 1 million per month for long, now that the 7" iPad and Kindles are out. The average mama and papa still don't know what a Nexus is. Being Play Store only (aside from a few US and UK retailers) is obviously a limiting factor, seeing as it's only available in select countries. In places where it's sold by Asus and not Google (like here in Singapore, though I got mine via my sister in Australia) there's a slight mark-up which makes it a less attractive proposition. This might prove a bigger stumbling block for the upcoming Nexus 4. Already reading that LG will be selling it in Austria for €500+ while it'll be available direct from Google in the German Play Store for only €350+ unlocked, though don't quote me on this just yet. Great device though. Sadly, tablet optimized apps for Android are still lacking compared to what you get on iOS. I managed to get a decent selection of core apps (all Holo, btw) and a few games, but most of the artsy and "leftfield" stuff is still iPad only, it seems. Edited 2012-11-01 01:37 UTC |
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| Great |
| By Nelson on 2012-11-01 01:55:19 |
| But lets revisit this after the iPad Mini has had an affect on the market. I don't think this will last long. |
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| RE: Comment by terra |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-11-01 06:10:50 |
| 아렠싯 |
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| I didn't expected this |
| By novad on 2012-11-01 06:27:39 |
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One thing that surprised me in this article was this: That number still pales in comparison to Apple’s third-quarter sales of 14 million iPads. A total of 25 million tablets were sold globally in the third quarter that means that 46% of tablet actually sold are NOT iPads. I talk out of my a$$ but I think that the majority of these tablets are Android ones. For me it shows a bit the same scenario as we saw at the beginning of Android phone sales... This could become very interesting in 2013 :-) As always, sorry for my english... Be indulgent as it's only my third language |
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| Runs Ubuntu |
| By RawMustard on 2012-11-01 06:59:15 |
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I wonder if the fact that you can run native Ubuntu on these things has led to increased sales. I know a lot of people want to run native linux on their tablets. This seems to be the first brand name one where it's painless to do and possible? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/In... |
| - Score: 6 |
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