Count me in as one of the thousands of geeks who stayed up at night and was doing the F5 marathon in trying to get his hands on this phone. I'm a big fan of the Nexus series and have had one since the first Nexus phone, so I decided to hold off-- and still am holding off-- just to get my hands on a Nexus 4. I was surprised and very disappointed with the way Google handled this launch.. And I have little confidence they'll get it right the second time around. Why do I feel that way? I'm kinda trying to see it from their point of view: What incentive do they have?
As far as I can tell, aren't they selling the phone at a loss? Is the botched launch harming their reputation sufficiently enough to prompt them to react accordingly? Is the public at large raging hard enough to push them to at least correct their mistakes? Most companies nowadays will accept nothing less than an Apple-release-like rush to their products, and anything less seems to count as a failure nowadays. Maybe I'm just in a state of unnecessary overthink, and I'd love to be proven wrong. It'd be a nice comfort.
Of course there's the T-Mobile route for the impatient, but when I walked into a store, they had a ~$600!! pricetag (after taxes) .. on their Nexus 4's.. Way more than the $499 (before taxes) suggested retail I've read about.. But I guess that keyword there is 'suggested.'
So I guess I might ask you folks.. If prior big Google releases (like the infamous Nexus7 release and the pre-order fiasco I hear about) are of any indicators.. How long did you all have to wait for a restock? Was the promised wait time met, were you pleasantly surprised one fine morning-- or did Google drop the ball a second time and miss their rough deadline? Oh, and when they
did finally restock, was it sufficient to meet the demand the second time around?