Google?s updated Nexus 7 fails to attract iPad owners

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?The new Google Nexus 7 is a big improvement over the original,? Darrell Etherington reports for TechCrunch. ?And that?s driving a lot of first generation device owners to trade in their old Nexus 7, according to gadget buy-back site Gazelle. There was a 333 percent spike in the number of Nexus 7 tablets traded in compared to the same day last week, for example.?

Etherington reports, ?The Nexus 7 trade-in activity spiked so high that it made up nearly a quarter of all trade-ins for non-iPad tablets since the site began accepting them earlier this year.?

MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, a whole quarter of 1%.

Etherington reports, ?Wednesday, the day Google made its announcement, was also the biggest Nexus 7 trade-in day at Gazelle to date, beating the next biggest day by 380 percent. The news means that Google Nexus 7 owners are probably happy with their devices and eager to grab new ones, by trading in their last-gen devices to fund their purchases, but there?s another stat that tells another side of the story: Gazelle saw no appreciable increase in iPad trade-ins on the new Nexus 7 launch day. That means Google probably isn?t luring iPad owners away from the iOS fold.?

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Why settle for one of the rest when you already have the very best?

[Attribution: Mac Rumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Lynn Weiler" for the heads up.]

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