Google Opens Real-World 'Google Shops' in Canada (digitaltrends.com)

Streetlight writes: Google is moving towards a physical presence in Best Buy stores...mimicking what Samsung has done. Hopefully the "stores" are staffed with competent professionals that know what they're selling and maybe provide some help to those who have purchased Google's hardware and software.
Google "is launching a store-within-a-store debuting in North America at select Best Buy locations in Canada," reports TechCrunch, adding that recently "Google also revealed that it would be creating a pop-up Experience Store for users to check out its new wares in New York City."

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Google Stores, or Alphabet Stores

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I've sometimes wondered why there ain't any Google/Alphabet Stores, the same way that there are Apple Stores or Microsoft Stores in malls. Places where I could take any generic Android phone/tablet, pay them something in return for them to upgrade it to the latest version of Android possible for that device (taking into consideration things like the amount of RAM, storage). I'm talking here about stuff that I can't upgrade via either settings or play store, and very few people are expert enough to do Cyanogen mod

If one says 'budget', well, they have a better chance of making money here than they have in making it w/ Google Fiber. What's more, result of such an exercise, they'll know how much of the legacy Android market could be upgraded to something relatively recent, and how much is just lost to Honeycomb, Icecream Sandwich and Jellybean. And it could be a bit like Microsoft Stores - just like Microsoft Stores don't just sell Surfaces and Lumias, but also Dells, Acers, HPs, et al, similarly a Google Store could sell Pixels, Galaxies, Sonys, LGs, OnePlus, Xiaomis and so on. In fact, very little of their inventory needs to be their own, but they could make a lot of 'service' money by upgrading old stuff to something that is decently usable