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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by arbitrary_name on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:02PM (#21421081)
It took years after the first iPhone launched in the US for it to be available in peripheral markets.

The hardware supply chain capability at Google is beginning to ramp up, but is nowhere near the maturity it needs to be to support a global rollout.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by woobar on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:03PM (#21421912)
If we consider parent's home country a "peripheral market", then it took iPhone months to reach it. Don't forget that Nexus One launched almost 10 year ago. There was plenty of time to build the supply chain.
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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by scarface74 on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:52PM (#21421769)
Apple sold 10 million phones the first year it was introduced in a much smaller market with only three or four carriers worldwide.....
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