I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that Google does charge the companies that build these devices, so that cost is propagated somewhere to the consumer. Ho

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that Google does charge the companies that build these devices, so that cost is propagated somewhere to the consumer. However, the real cost saver is the fact that, in my experience, FirefoxOS largely outperforms Android on many tasks, and generally is usable on hardware that is much cheaper than anything Android requires to run these days.