Dive Summary:

• During an interview, Android chief Andy Rubin said that Google, who has been rumored to be looked into real estate for physical stores, "has no plans" to actually launch its own retail effort.
• Rubin said that consumers don't need to "touch and feel" devices in stores anymore, making the usefulness of an actual store negligible.
• The interview also included a question about the company's potential move to a subscription music service, but neither Rubin or his colleagues would comment.

From the article:

Plus, he said, the Google hardware effort is still in its infancy. “For Nexus, I don’t think the program is far enough along to think about the necessity of having these things in a retail store,” he said.

As for whether Google as a whole might nonetheless be considering retail stores, “Google has no plans and we have nothing to announce,” he said. ...