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Could you explain why Google has the hardware expertise? Besides their Nexus Q, what consumer hardware has Google made?


While Google reasonably enough outsources the hardware portion of job, it has an OS for mobile devices (Android) which cannot be successfully developed without significant hardware expertise.

While not on consumer hardware front, Google also develops (but not builds) its own quite customized servers. Facebook also does so, BTW, and in a nicer way (see opencompute.org).




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