Google obviously depends greatly on their partners for Android's success and giving the Nexus business to their subsidiary right off the bat would probably end

Google obviously depends greatly on their partners for Android's success and giving the Nexus business to their subsidiary right off the bat would probably end up sending Samsung, HTC, et al into forkland. That said Google is supposed to be making a better effort to keep all of the A list Android handset makers more in the loop instead of just working with one at a time and dumping it on the others with the Nexus launches.