The worst part of that is the responses, its ridiculous. This is my favorite,
" I too have wondered why Google is making their own phone.
The best reason I can come up with is that they are NOT making any money on their partner phones.
I have had a smartphone for 1 year and have prob made 3 Google searches.... this is bad news for Google. People just don't Google on their smartphone.... not nearly as much as the desktop anyhow.
When you consider that Apple has had 3 billion app downloads.... that's 3 billion searches that didn't take place on Google equating to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
So the best way forward for Google in the interim is to sell their own phone like Apple to reap the big margins, until they can work ut how to generate search revenue's on smartphones."