Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Originally Posted By: andy
The Nexus 7 is amazingly well built and specced for the price, you'd happily imagine it cost 50% more than it did.

It does. This would be at least a $399 tablet at retail for anyone else. The value aspect is always going to be first and foremost when the people selling it are willing to do so in exchange for zero or negative income. Google is losing big bucks on this one when you factor in costs besides manufacturing.

And once more, where are your numbers on this one? From what I've read/heard, the device costs something like $150-170 to make. Assuming that the rest of the cost goes to Asus for their profits, it's just selling for cost.

Well, I say that, but neither of us really knows, do we? I'm just presuming that Google doesn't have a ton of cost sunk into each tablet. They don't have the huge advertising campaigns, for example.
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