ArsTechnica's Ron Amadeo mentioned his thoughts on the whole "Nexus is dead" thing, in a post he titled "Dumb Things in the News Today":
"The Nexus line will be discontinued." Google needs a piece of hardware that they control to develop Android on. Google does a little more work and turns those development devices into production devices.
I'll quote +Dave Burke "as an engineering team creating a mobile platform — we can't [develop Android] in the abstract. We need to do it on a real device that we're carrying with us. When people ask me about the Nexus line, I like to joke that if you need to create a few hundred polished and usable devices for Google engineers, why not make a few hundred thousand more and sell them to hardcore users?" The Moto X proves Google still needs the Nexus program | The Verge
Until Google controls some other phone platform the Android team is still going to need to make phones. Might as well release them.
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