It’s starting to sound like a broken record with every Nexus phone. Google reported quarterly results today and CFO Patrick Pichette acknowledged that they can’t keep up with Nexus 6 demand.
He said, “While the Nexus 6 was well received as a new phone, we had real issues and were unable to secure sufficient inventory to meet the demand that we had forecasted.”
Why does this always seem to be the case with Google? It all started with the Nexus 4, which was a complete fiasco. The Nexus 5 wasn’t too bad, but things got bad again with the Nexus 6. It’s not like Google doesn’t have deep pockets to buy phones. Do they want people to believe the demand is so high?
Nexus phones are not big sellers no matter what anyone tells you. Just take a look at the latest distribution numbers in which Lollipop didn’t even make the list. That means that less than 0.1% of people are on Lollipop. That includes current and older Nexus devices, not to mention some other Motorola devices. We are talking very small numbers here. How could a company like Google and Motorola miss by that much.
The bottomline is that Google likes to keep the production lower than the demand to create excitement. Even if the demand is not all that high. The Nexus 6 is no iPhone folks. Ask anyone on the street if they ever heard of it and 99 out of 100 people will say “what?”
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