Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is expected to sell 9.6 million Nexus tablets next year.Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson had originally forecasted sales as high as 14.6 million in 2013. Wilson has reduced this figure because the Nexus 7 has not sold as quickly as he expected.However, it is very difficult to gauge exactly how many tablets Google might sell in the coming year. The search engine giant did not even enter the tablet space until it released the first iteration of the Nexus 7 last summer. At that time, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the dominant player in the market. The Mac maker has retained that title, albeit with increased competition from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and other tech giants.During the summer Amazon announced that it had completely sold out of the first-generation Kindle Fire and commanded 22 percent of the domestic tablet market. The company set a new record for Kindle sales on November 26, AKA Cyber Monday.Thus far, Wilson estimates that the Nexus 7 will have sold four million units by the end of 2012. This falls in line with the sales estimate provided by Asus, which manufactures the seven-inch tablet. David Chang, the company's Chief Financial Officer, said that while the device initially ...
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