Well, company X is shipping its phone with an almost free (as in beer) software stack. If their entire stack was paid software, there would have been some more

Well, company X is shipping its phone with an almost free (as in beer) software stack. If their entire stack was paid software, there would have been some more margin for profit. I cannot even guesstimate on how much would their profit share increase (given that higher price would mean lower sales), but it might be significant.