16GB Nexus 7 Sold Out On Google Play Store

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."

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Re:Now we get to see

[Darkness404]

Not really. Google's products have always been popular in the right circles. The thing is, Google's previous physical products have been phones. The vast, vast, vast, majority of Americans buy their phones subsidized on contract, if the Google Nexus Phone X isn't there in the Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile or Sprint store, most people aren't going to buy it. Even among early adopters who look online they see $600 for a phone and can't justify paying that + contract price (and on contract is really the only way to keep a decent data plan today). They don't see a $600 phone when they buy the phone that costs them $50 on contract, they see a $50 phone. When you show them Google's phone, they see a very expensive piece of technology and understandably aren't buying it like crazy.

Tablets are different. Your average American isn't comparing the Google price to a substadized price, instead they are seeing you can buy a $200 tablet from Google, a $200 tablet from Amazon, a $400 high end Android tablet or a $500 low-end tablet from Apple.

Re:$50 for 8 gig is a terrible deal

[AmiMoJo]

If you drop a movie or two on it, you have no room left for your music, pictures, and other apps / data.

PROTIP: don't copy entire DVDs/BluRays to your device, encode to MKV at 720p to reduce a movie down to about 1GB. Also has the added benefit of stripping out all the pointless unskippable rubbish before the movie starts.