[Tyrannosaurs]

No, they're selling it there because that's where they're set up. Just because you have a product you don't expect to directly make money on you don't go and set up a new operation to sell it - the fact you're not making money means that you're going to use whatever you've already got in place rather than incur new costs.

But the fact that this product isn't profitable doesn't excuse it. We're always told that Android drives the Google ecosystem which drives profits.

This phone in of itself may not be profitable but it drives other Google services which are and on which tax is avoided.