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I think you nailed it on the last sentence. Google originally started selling a phone directly to consumers with no carrier involved, but gave up on the idea b
by dgreensp 16y ago
I think you nailed it on the last sentence.
Google originally started selling a phone directly to consumers with no carrier involved, but gave up on the idea because they weren't able to sell enough units.
- aristidb 16y agoGoogle is also not really a good retailer. They have no experience at all with directly selling stuff, and I think they messed it up. But I can directly buy phones from HTC or Samsung here (well, of course through retailers), and some people do. Electronics stores offer a big selection of unlocked smartphones (I got mine through http://www.amazon.de/ http://www.amazon.de/). I always get a bit pissed when people from the USA ignore that the rest of the world is not just inhabited by dragons.