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August 20, 2010 3:00 PM EDT
Google Nexus One, the first Android phone that was scrapped by Google finds a different set of customers - application developers.
A post on the Android Developers Blog reported that the phone has proven to be quite popular among developers. As Tim Bray writes, "we blew through the (substantial) initial inventory in almost no time, and they're back-ordered from HTC." The phones were completely sold off.
In July, when Google announced taking off Nexus from the market citing low demand, it had also issued a statement in its blog post that it will continue to make Nexus One available to Android developers.
Nexus One died due to anemic sales, with the phone selling only 135,000 units in roughly the same time it took the iPhone and the Droid -- that runs the Android system -- to sell 1 million units.
Well, with its new-found customer base the phone can live on. Application developers who churn revenue writing apps for the phone have also become the custodians of the phone. The phone may not have survived as a consumer phone but is sure to carry on its legacy as a guinea-phone in the hands of its developers.
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