16GB Nexus 7 Sold Out On Google Play Store 262
hypnosec writes "Just days after it was officially made available on Google Play, Google's Nexus 7 16GB version has been sold out and is not available for order. Google's probable answer to Amazon's Kindle has been selling like hot cakes from day one, and was available with two different amounts on-board storage: 8GB and 16GB. Considering that people now-a-days want more space on their portable computing device, the 16GB version was selling more than its 8GB sibling. Another reason for the 16GB to outsell the 8GB variant is that the price difference between the two is just $50."
Re:8gb? (Score:3, Insightful)
The Cloud offsets much of the local storage need. (Score:4, Insightful)
I think the challenge for this device was to bring the price down to $200. Which means reduced storage. It is easy enough now to use cloud drives/music to avoid the necessity of of having the bulk of your library local. This tablet can compete with the Kindle Fire as a result, and it will greatly increase the footprint of Android in the tablet space. When the leading product is literally three times the price or the the aging model is double the price for the same storage, it begins to look pretty good. If you need to have your entire catalog of files locally, then this may not be the device you want/need.
Hundreds of dollars a year for mobile broadband (Score:5, Insightful)
My tablet has 16GB, and I have a 16GB microSD.
The Nexus 7, on the other hand, has no microSD slot.
The only thing my local storage is for is installed applications, and a handful off items for when I'm offline.
Perhaps people buying the bigger capacities are offline more than you are. They don't want to spend hundreds of dollars a year on a mobile broadband plan for a tablet when they're already paying hundreds for Internet at home. And even if they do pay up, once someone streams a couple movies over cellular, that's all the Internet access the subscriber gets for the month.
Re:$50 for 8 gig is a terrible deal (Score:5, Insightful)
For me it was both.
Form factor of an eReader, power of an iPad, and half the price of an iPad.
I got a 16GB. I would have definitely bought a 32GB if it were available. I don't quite understand why they even produced an 8GB if it doesn't have an SD slot and doesn't have G4. If you drop a movie or two on it, you have no room left for your music, pictures, and other apps / data.
This thing would have been golden with an SD slot.
Great Device (Score:4, Insightful)
For anyone on the fence about buying one, do not hesitate, it's a fantastic device!
Re:The Cloud offsets much of the local storage nee (Score:4, Insightful)
It is easy enough now to use cloud drives/music to avoid the necessity of of having the bulk of your library local.
Not while you're out of range of a Wi-Fi AP that you're permitted to use. That happens more often for some people than for others. In fact, for some people, the only place they're sure to have Internet access on a tablet is at home.
Re:$50 for 8 gig is a terrible deal (Score:5, Insightful)
X sold out in Y days (Score:5, Insightful)
When a new consumer product/book/whatever hits the market, it's common to limit quantities of the first shipment so you can tell the world you "sold out" a few days later. The reason you do this is threefold:
1) Reminds consumers that product X is now available for sale
2) Get consumers to think that if they're interested, they need to buy now (e.g., rather than comparison shop)
3) Get consumers to think that the list price IS the price the product is selling for (e.g., don't look for discounts)
Or maybe (Score:3, Insightful)
Google intentionally manufactured (not really Google, but still...) few units just so they can say "hey, our Nexus 7 is really hot shit and sold out!!"
Re:Successor to Kindle Fire (Score:5, Insightful)
Not if they wanted pure android.
Which is why I am getting one. I have a nook running CM7 and a nicer device in the form factor running real android is exactly what I have been waiting for.
Re:$50 for 8 gig is a terrible deal (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't quite understand why they even produced an 8GB if it doesn't have an SD slot and doesn't have G4.
to promote tethering..
well, not really, it's to skimp on every possible buck and to promote googles cloud services.
and with no removable storage some circles within google can pretend it's secure. or will be. in future(tm). and by secure I mean "limit consumers access to media they just bought".
Re:The Cloud offsets - NOT !!! (Score:4, Insightful)
They have a brain and knew that excluding MicroSD is smart.
It is slow and users will complain about their device being slow when they access it.
USB sticks are also slow, but it is very clear they are not part of the device to be left connected at all times.
You only need to hook up the usb stick to copy media back and forth nothing else.
Re:$50 for 8 gig is a terrible deal (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Successor to Kindle Fire (Score:5, Insightful)
The real difference between the Nexus 7 and those other tablets is that the Nexus 7 is fast (quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3). Between that and the fact that, as a Google-branded device, it will actually get OS upgrades (unlike those other tablets), it's not only a better value now but it's also future-proof enough to justify paying for the extra 8GB.