That's too bad, a store dedicated to Android devices (phones and tablets, maybe just nexus devices), chromeOS laptops, glass, TV, whatever that home video sphere thing was, etc. would compete very nicely with Apple stores.
Except Google knows nothing about customer service? Not even a phone number to call, let alone an in-person presence. Also, Google TV was a complete flop, along with their audio streaming device.
schraeds has a point -- with Google's seemingly antisocial corporate culture, would they be able to offer a competitive in-store customer experience?
I agree, Google would have to build out and run retail as a very independent part of the company, "customer service" is just not in their DNA.