There's almost no room to co-exist if you want to profit.

There was this story recently on hacker news about that Oracle lawyer that published this exact information:

> Google Inc.’s Android operating system has generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-a...

This Pixel is really no different from the previous Neuxs phones, except that they're not emphasizing the manufacturer as much. The hardware is made by HTC, and Nexus phones were also sold directly through Google.

"google has never sold a phone directly."

They've sold the Nexus phones directly for quite a while now.

On an infinite timescale, sure, everybody is going the way of Blackberry.

Pretty sure most companies would aspire to the model where 94% of the rent accrues to you...

Companies that play that loss leader strategy almost always fail. Apple would be over the moon if all their competitors were doing this.