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Does Google get a share from the sale of Nexus devices? I think it's samsung competing with asus rather than with google.

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> Does Google get a share from the sale of Nexus devices?

You mean they don't? News to me.

> I think it's samsung competing with asus rather than with google.

But Asus partnered/supported/whatever with Google, not Asus on their own clearly.

Not really. Andy Rubin said this is being sold at cost, so either Google is paying for Asus' margin or none of them is getting a margin on this device, setting a price point even harder for manufacturers to match.

It would make more sense to me that "at cost" is relative to Google. Google pays Asus to manufacture these devices. I'm pretty sure that the payments to Asus include Asus' margin. The point being that Google is getting no margin.

the point is that it makes no difference: either way the other manufacturers will not get the subsidization, so they can't match the price point.

If Asus can make it for Google with a margin for themselves, then other manufacturers could do the same. I doubt that Asus is making these devices for Google at no profit.

Oh, come on, really?

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