Should Google kill the Nexus One?

I don't know how many of you actually own a Nexus One, but I bought one, and I can't see why everyone is considering it such a failure. Having used an iPhone and an HTC Magic I think the Nexus is a big leap.<p>It does more than the iPhone out of the box - IM, free contact, calendar and Facebook sync, native Gmail, turn by turn navigation, and tons of technological improvements and finely tuned small details. Granted, it's not a revolution, just evolution, but it is the best phone out there right now.<p>Also, the 20,000 figure (for first week sales) that keeps being quoted everywhere is just a ridiculously inaccurate statistic.

Absolutely not; however, I feel that Google made a big mistake. It released a Minimum Viable Product, which might have been okay for other companies to do, but because Google is such a large brand name- and such a large part of the internet- it is expected to come out with an amazing product.<p>A minimum viable product phone is simply not acceptable for someone like my mother who would by the phone because it has Google's name on it. (Yes. I understand that example has a fallacy or two, but it should make my point clear.)<p>On the other hand, I keep on getting more and more interested in this phone!

Killing it makes very little sense when the vast majority of the capital investment has been made already.<p>Further, whatever possible (unlikely) brand damage a moderately unsuccessful piece of hardware would do to Google it would pale in comparison to what would happen if they pulled it from the market.<p>Google isn't the kind of company that needs things to be an overnight success, I think in the long run they will gain ground.

no one launches a phone (or anything) correctly off the cuff. Apple were simply clever enough to launch their first phone, the Motorola iTunes enabled phone, with a different brand.<p>Give Google a year and they'll be fine.

They should brick the cell modem's firmware and sell them for ~$200 as iPod Touch competitors.