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Samsung and Huawei have their own chipsets but not an appreciable longer device lifecycle. I'm not holding my breath here.
by llampx 5y ago
Samsung 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.