“While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not,” wrote Andy Rubin, vice-president of engineering at Google in a blog post in May. “It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters.” 

It doesn’t come as a surprise because Google had earlier warned its users that the company would shut down the store. But the ‘registered developers’ will get the device as Google promised to make the device available through a partner.

The company didn’t divulge any information on how many units of Nexus One it has sold. Nexus One was launched as a competitor of Apple’s iPhone but it couldn’t survive the battle.