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Qualcomm wants to sell hardware upgrades. Google wants people to use its services. Completely different motivations. Most of all Google wants to avoid a compet
by modeless 5y ago
Qualcomm wants to sell hardware upgrades. Google wants people to use its services. Completely different motivations.
Most of all Google wants to avoid a competitor taking a large majority share of the phone market and using that control to deprecate the web in favor of a curated native app store, putting a gatekeeper in between Google and its customers. That was the original motivation for Android in the first place and it hasn't really changed.
- llampx 5y agoSamsung and Huawei have their own chipsets but not an appreciable longer device lifecycle. I'm not holding my breath here.
- modeless 5y agoMaking their money predominantly from hardware sales, the motivations of Samsung and Huawei are similar to Qualcomm, not Google.
- llampx 5y agoWe're here discussing a hardware launch from Google, with a rumored selling price of $1000+. In what way does that not imply that Google wants to make money from hardware sales?
- modeless 5y agoThe key word is predominantly. As long as Google makes dramatically more money from platform-agnostic services than hardware, which will still be true even if this device is much more successful than expected, its motivations will be very different from those of hardware companies.