Google scraps Nexus One web store
The web store – which was planned to cut mobile networks out of the process of buying a handset, selling the phone unswervingly to the client – has reportedly suffered poor sales.
In a post on the official Google blog, Engineering VP Andy Rubin wrote that ‘as with every innovation, some parts worked better than others.’ The web store was a part that worked less well, it seems.
Google will as a substitute switch to a more conventional model of selling the handset through partner mobile networks and bodily stores, much as they have done in Europe, where in the UK the Nexus One is accessible on Vodafone.
The blog post said: ‘Once we have increased the availability of Nexus One devices in stores, we’ll stop selling handsets via the web store, and will instead use it as an online store window to showcase a variety of Android phones available globally.’
Google persevere it’s not all fate and murk, though – the post speaks that ‘the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations’, consequently the refitting of the web store as a showcase for an assortment of Android gadgets.
Android handsets outsold iPhones for the first time in the US in the first quarter of 2010, representing the platform’s growing uptake as more makers release higher quality handsets. Nevertheless, this is likely to change, momentarily at least, once the fourth generation iPhone goes on sale this summer.
