Thread: Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand
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Old 07-23-2012, 12:17 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
Google's planners mostly live and work in places with constant free wifi. Google's home, Mountain View, has free wifi city-wide, provided by Google. For people who have 24/7 connectivity, "put it in the cloud" makes perfect sense. In addition to believing their own hype a bit too much, they may just *forget* that most people can't rely on the cloud for anything that's crucially important to them.
I think it was lack of marketing creativity is all. They saw B&N and Amazon's success and cloned it.
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