That doesn't say anything about cost. The deal on Google apps is (or used to be) membership in the OHA, which is about app level compatibility. There are two p

That doesn't say anything about cost. The deal on Google apps is (or used to be) membership in the OHA, which is about app level compatibility. There are two possible impedients for cheap devices there: 1. minimum hardware requirements (which exploded over the last few Android releases), 2. Google might not care about herding a bunch of small vendors. reghardware merely "implies" that it's about cash.