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> Google releases high quality hardware with their OS to prove that a good machine could be make with it, but at a price that does not compete with others. Tha
by mbillie1 12y ago
> Google releases high quality hardware with their OS to prove that a good machine could be make with it, but at a price that does not compete with others.
That is a very interesting notion that I had not considered at all, but can that be entirely true? It must cost a small fortune to get a device like this ready for public consumption, even if they don't sell very many of them.
- AndyJ1972 12y agoLike Apple, Google just want you in the ecosystem. The money is really in the "App Stores" as such.
- IkmoIkmo 12y agoVendor lockin is certainly huge (especially data for Google to drive their main ad business), but Apple's app store is a fraction (something like 15b/180b. I'd say vendor lockin is still much, much more important to drive their hardware sales, despite making very big steps in earning from software (app stores) in the past decade.