Nexus 10 is back in Stock at Google Play Store

Let me give you a developer's perspective because you don't seem to understand the developers or the business models that support availability of an app on a platform. It is not their laziness or the company attitudes that causes this problem.

1. The most important criterion when an app developers want to develop an app is to figure out where the audience for their app is and where you can monetize best to spend your limited resources.

2. Android as a single platform doesn't mean anything by itself. For example, if I was developing a travel online magazine app, I would try to figure out what people who would read it most are likely to have. 80%-90% of the android devices may be ruled out for that purpose because the app is likely best consumed on a tablet that has certain minimum display resolution say 1024x600 7" tablet.

3. Android fragmentation is a problem in a way that is different from what most people think. In the above example, the penetration of Android tablets satisfying the criterion in people who might be interested is very low. In fact, I am not surprised that content companies target the Kindle Fire or Nook because the target audience and marketing for those devices are much more predictable. Supporting various devices is not a problem if there is a market for it. It is not that the Android platform is fragmented into many devices but rather the target market is fragmented into many device brandings each of which may not have sufficient core mass to justify development. Samsung tries to channel its users to its own app store for the mainstream non-techy consumers, Amazong has its own, etc. This will change I think by 2014 or so.

4. Monetization on Android is about 15%-20% of the iOS market for the same app but support costs are higher. Many different reasons including app discovery in the store (Google doesn't even provide the means for people to find tablet optimized apps and make people go through a lot of crappy smartphone apps so tablet owners don't go looking for apps as much as they might like to and stick with what comes pre-installed).

5. The main problem for Android monetization is Google itself. It doesn't have the retail DNA and it has never been able to make much money by charging for things to consumers. This is reflected in a lot of things they do regarding the platform and the devices where they just stop short of the 100% that would make it not just technologically better but commercially better. It is getting better but they will always do a 80% effort and leave it there that discourages many developers interested in developing.

6. The market for Android will improve when Apple develops enough hubris to alienate their customers and developers, not because of what Google does. Apple is already on its way to doing that.

2014 will be the year for Android devices to become mainstream and it might be because of Samsung or Amazon, not Google or Asus.

Quote from phonic : What I mean by mainstream is not in device adoption, I mean by device recognition. Android has a huge base of users, but most don't know what Android even is. Apple IOS on the other hand has a huge marketing campaign and people *want* those devices. They think Android is the device for people who can't afford an iPhone/iPad, which might be the case in some circumstances, but it's certainly not an inferior product. Also, iPad/iPhone owners, by their very nature, are happy to waste, er, spend money on overpriced things. So app developers feel that they are more likely to pay for apps versus android users. Once Android gets more loyal users and they demand app support, the companies will wisen up. One issue with Android tablets, versus iPad and Kindle Fire, is the extremely large variety of form factors, hardware, display sizes, processors (cpu and gpu), OS versions, etc. This has always been an issue for app developers because of the need to make an app work on so many different platforms. iStuff and Kindle Fire is easier to develop for because the differences in the respective platforms is minute. And they can work closely with Apple and Amazon to make any required changes, etc. But with generic Android, there is so much openness that it impacts the ability for any one app to work on all platforms. HOWEVER, many app developers just ignore porting to android because they are lazy. The Wired app, I mentioned before, works perfectly fine if I sideload it on my Nexus7. But Conde Nast refuses to put any effort into expanding the support hardware. They will however let me pay for each issue directly from Google, even if I have a subscription already. Google realizes this is a major problem, and it's one of the things they covered in the last Google I/O Developers conference. The new android versions are designed to be more agnostic to hardware, from an app perspective, to make things easier to develop for. They also are implementing better protections for apps to, because many developers don't like how easy it is to pirate android apps.

Any better than the asus transformer infinity? or prime?

I bought the 16GB Nexus 10 for my wife for Christmas via the Google site. I bought on 12-4-12. It said "ships soon" so I bought it. It ended up shipping 2 days later. Not bad. My wife seen the box and asked who it was for. I had her fire it up and I am glad that I did. We tried it out and on the first night, we got random freezes and reboots while using Chrome. I tried restarting, leaving off all widgets, and leaving location services off, and it STILL freezed on us numerous times. Turns out, Google only allows a FIFTEEN day return policy from the day the item arrives. If I would have waited until Christmas, I would have been stuck with the unit. I would have been livid.

We were willing to go ahead with the "fixes" we found until an update were to come around, but none of them worked. That seemed ridiculous considering the price. It was a bummer to have to return it, but I am holding out until there is a REAL fix out there. Once there is, I will gladly purchase again. The screen and the speed were amazing!

As of today, I still do not have my refund yet. They must receive the device and test it. Once all is okay, they will refund me within 10 business days.

Quote from Nate650 : Back in stock is not a "hot deal."

This.

Quote from viziotelevision : does anyone know why these devices are OOS for a long time? is this due to shipment issues? or any other reason? I want to buy 8GB Nexus 4 phone, but it's been OOS for a long time. Not even sure if this will ever available :-(

Supply vs demand. Supply is only so much and demand far far far exceeds the supply. So they tend to stay OOS for a while, similar to how the Nintendo Wii was when it first released.

walmart.com has had the Nexus 10 in stock for quite a while. It is very recently out of stock, but your store may have it!

15 % CB with discover and free shipping= great deal if your ok with 32 GB model.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Google-...y/22088419

Quote from Maconi : I just bought a Nexus 10 from Staples B&M yesterday. It does appear to have some light bleed in the bottom left and right corners (although not bad, maybe normal and I'm imagining it?). I wonder if it would be worth it to return it and get one from Google directly. But then what if that one also has light bleed? Does Google do returns? Also, I'm talking super small backlight bleed. Here's a couple pictures for reference. This is what mine looks like to my eyes (not an actual picture of it): http://www.ipadmalaysialabs.com/w...d-test.jpg It's actually not even that bad, 50% of that or less, it's just that type of bleed (concentrated white glow in the bottom left and right corners of the tablet). This is an actual picture of it (looks worse in the pic than it actually does IMO): http://i.imgur.com/jeWlb.jpg

Good idea is just to take it back to Staples while you can return it and get another or another or another until you get one that is rock solid. That's the great thing about brick and mortar outlets, returns are always far quicker.

Do they have the nexus 4 with microsd slot version?

discover doesn't have 15% cb on walmart

Quote from usawrestling : walmart.com has had the Nexus 10 in stock for quite a while. It is very recently out of stock, but your store may have it! 15 % CB with discover and free shipping= great deal if your ok with 32 GB model. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Google-...y/22088419

Quote from Emjay : BTW, 8.9" is the sweet spot for Tablets. I had the Nexus 7 and it was way too small and I had multiple 10" Ipads and they were way to big for reading. Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet or the Kindle 8.9" are IMO in the right range of Tablets. I got a Galaxy and every one who has reviewed the Galaxy 8.9" on Amazon also say 8.9" is the best form factor...not too big but not too small. I got rid of every tablet that were 10 and 7 inch.

Oh I dunno, for reading. The Nexus 10 is pretty good for reading as is, I've zero complaints about it and definitely. It's also not too bulky for e-reading.

Quote from captainmccool : I'm currently using a rooted Nook HD and I love it. I've waited and waited for a deal on the 7" Nexus but it never came. Got a pretty good deal on the HD so I'm content for now. Definitely recommended if people don't want to throw down this kind of cash.

I‘m ready to buy one

Quote from desimillionaire : You'll be fine to return it. They dont do restocking fee. I use to work as a mgr there and as long as its within the return dates, your fine. Factory Restore it so all your info is gone.

Thank you brother!

I really, really recommend that you NOT buy this through the Play Store due to their return policy which limits you to 15 days, with a 15% restocking fee. I received one for Christmas. Unfortunately, it turns out that the Nexus 10 has lockup/reboot issues that seem to be related to Chrome or the GPS.

Right now, it's really irritating. The whole thing locks up at least once per day. Sometimes when switching Chrome tabs. Last night it was when I ran the Camera app. Google is swapping them for other units, but they also have the problem.

The good news is that, since my mother bought it from Walmart, I have at least a 30 day window to return it, and maybe up to 90 with their holiday extension. So far, Google doesn't seem to have acknowledged the problem, so unless something develops soon, I'll return it and shell out an extra $100 for an iPad.

Regarding the Nexus 10 lockups, here is the bug report on code.google [google.com], made November 17th. So, about 1.5 months have gone by without the issue being addressed. Here's the Android Central thread [androidcentral.com] on the issue.