I don't really get the Nexus Q either. I guess I see two different things that would be better.

1) Something for $50 or less that does what the Nexus Q does, minus the speaker amp. At that point, you've got a useful toy at an impulse-buy price that you can connect to any TV and get something vaguely useful.

2) The full GoogleTV experience wired into a fancy Japanese home theater receiver. Much as I like my Pioneer Elite SC-25, their attempt at a UI is comical. It's only modestly improved in their newer receivers.

As it is, the Nexus Q slots into the funny space populated by compact audiophile all-in-one products like, say, the Arcam Solo Mini. Assuming that the amp in the Nexus Q is any good, it might even be competitive in this oddball audiophile category.