This is totally overthinking it. Google is making money hand over fist from so many different angles that they can simply afford to. Google Play makes them mo

This is totally overthinking it. Google is making money hand over fist from so many different angles that they can simply afford to. Google Play makes them more profit than some major phone manufacturers do off all their devices sold. So if there are engineers at Google who are willing to own something like getting high quality Chromebook support in the larger Linux ecosystem, the money is there. Compare that to traditional phone manufacturers that are: - reluctant to spend a single dime where they don't have to - actually benefit from obsolete devices - have trouble attracting in-house talent causing them to outsource work in a way that is not conducive to high quality upstream-able code... At the end of the day it's money.