The release of Nexus devices on Verizon is not something that Google has control over. I am sure that Verizon could have potentially tripled the sales of the any of the Nexus devices mainly because they have three times the subscribers. When it comes down to it, Verizon has complete control over the phones that they allow their customers to buy. They were not comfortable with the idea of a completely open and untouched phone on their network and they refused to allow Google to sell it. Verizon loves to add their own bloatware and programs to devices and I am sure they were not too fond of someone else having all of the control. I hope that they have realized by now the power of the Nexus line and have decided to change their ways and allow the Nexus Prime to be sold for their network.