[Nexus 7 General] dockinj:
IMO it is hard to compare Apple to Google on delivery. Apple have mostly their own B&M and they brand their products exclusively. So Apple launches a product and they have complete control over manufacturing, distribution, and Retail with a few 3rd party retail partners. They would have to be really really screwed up to mess up their own manufacturing and distribution. As they have it in house we would also never know if they screwed up as all they would do is cover it up and push out the release date.

Google's failure was in communication to the consumers, and allowing Asus to ship to B&M retail partners at their own will. They should have never released the device to retail partners that close to distribution of pre-orders. And we all feel the result, as Google completely alienated us as dedicated consumers to the Google brand. I do agree they messed up hugely! It would have been a simple fix, first delay all shipments to retail partners, then an early communication on the Google Play site (when I say early I mean June 28, as soon as they were aware that the demand for this product was severely under estimated in their bring to market plan) stating " Due to the overwhelming demand for the Nexus 7 we will not be shipping devices until August 1, apologies for any inconvenience". Then nobody would have expected to see the device until August 1, Retail partners would not have had the devices at all so they could not have sold them (rightly or wrongly).

Think about this, when flying on any airline now have you noticed that almost every flight arrives ahead of the planned arrival time? This is because the airline industry now builds in delay time, its already built in to the flight time so that they can exceed expectations most of the time. I believe this is what Google should have done. If they thought they could deliver say 1 Million devices by July 10 they should have said August 10. Then let all of the pre-orders come in and once they have met the demand ship the devices early. Now they have created a perception that they have exceeded expectations when actually they just managed their customers expectations appropriately :-) just my opinion.

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Yep same thing happened to me yesterday. So if MyUPS says delivery tomorrow, you will receive a Google shipment mail tomorrow AM at like 4:30. If it is set for delivery today then you will receive it shortly just keep an eye out for it.

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You know it! This Nexus 7 has the CPU and Memory of a Laptop these days. There is no way that Apple will even attempt to complete with Google on product AND delivery price. Google has a strategy on this Nexus 7, I am not sure what it is but they aren't selling this device for such a small per unit margin for nothing! They either wanted to black any possible competition from Apple or they wanted 99% of the market to own a Nexus 7 so that when they launch "accessory devices" they can make their profits up there. You see Apple was brilliant in this area, they made great products that are awesome to own, but get better as you add additional devices to them. Apple iPhone is great, but an iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV is better! Google may be trying to build a similar model where now that we all have the Nexus 7 we will NEED the Nexus Q to make it even better.

We will see how the strategy plays out, but I believe Google has something up their sleeve andI think I like it!