Re:Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 min...
by Greynum on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:13PM
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That was a Google+ Number not a Face Book Number.
Yes if you are Google and you keep track of all of these things you can quite accurately translate those metrics into potential sales.
Especially when you can build Plus Ones profiles for every phone every made then correlate that to actual sales figures. It's not 100% accurate but it's certainly accurate enough not to go out of stock in 1 hour.
Its Google entire business model last time I checked.
Yes if you are Google and you keep track of all of these things you can quite accurately translate those metrics into potential sales.
Especially when you can build Plus Ones profiles for every phone every made then correlate that to actual sales figures. It's not 100% accurate but it's certainly accurate enough not to go out of stock in 1 hour.
Its Google entire business model last time I checked.