[cannonedhamster]

Google has purchased and killed off numerous profitable companies. They've killed off Hangouts, Allo, Gchat, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few wildly popular chat services only to replace them with inferior products. They've killed off Google Reader which someone built a clone of and appears to be making a profit. They killed off Google Fiber, Nexus, and Glass all solid hardware that many people are/were still using. The point is you can't trust Google to not just drop something at a moment's notice, even if it's older or profitable, try getting help from them as well good luck finding want kind of support unless you happen to know someone inside the company personally. As a business they are hard to work with and notoriously flaky, I'd always choose to go elsewhere now after years of being a Google advocate. They're even looking to replace Android so what can you trust from them?

[joshuamorton]

Neither Nexus nor glass was killed.

Nexus became pixel. Glass never left beta and is still an enterprise product.

[llampx]

Nexus and Pixel are very different. They are both phones but the market and strategy is not the same.

[joshuamorton]

In what way?

The major differences are that Google is more involved with pixel hardware design than nexus (probably a good thing), and that pixels are more expensive (which follows the market price for flagship phones).

They both fill the niche of first-party flagship devices with the "pure, as google intended" (or something) android experience.