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		Semaphor on Oct 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ I'm pretty sure the directly sold Nexus 4 did quite well in the US, to the point that google had problems with availability.

2muchcoffeeman on Oct 5, 2013 | [–]

The availability problems are probably because they made a nice phone, sold it for cheap off contract and never made enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4

Units sold 1 million as of February 2013[3] 3 million as of 2Q 2013[4]

philwelch on Oct 5, 2013 | [–]

Nexus isn't a downmarket brand. And it's available through carriers.

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