There has been a lot of talk here (and other places) about the poor job Google did with the release of this product, starting for the order process, production amounts and shipping. That's been covered already, no one thinks that any part of this was good.
I believe that they should have done it the same way Apple does, start the sale and keep it up with backorders. This way people can still order but it will take several weeks to ship it. At the same time see how much demand they have and with that maybe increase production to cover all orders as soon as they can, even in shorter time than said in the order.
I hope that they learned something from this and in the future it will be better.