Eating your own dog food is using your own product, which Google does without question Devices not sold on the Play Store are not Google's product. Those produ

Eating your own dog food is using your own product, which Google does without question Devices not sold on the Play Store are not Google's product. Those products performing poorly, purchased as you stated, are the fault of the carriers. I also wouldn't call the Nexus devices "ringers". Maybe if Play customers had faster processors or better displays than our carrier cousins, sure; but that's not the case. We are just purchasing our tiny little computers straight from the manufacturer, rather than buying from a third part. The Nexus devices have their own history of problems as well. I still have no WiFi calling on my Nexus 4, despite T-Mobile Nexus 4's having the ability to do so. Of the 3 Nexus 7's I purchased for Christmas 2012, there's only one that will charge any longer: the one I rooted and run Cyanogen Mod on. I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for with this post, for Google to run the bloated device you paid twice as much for from the carrier, as opposed to buying straight from Google (the Nexus 4 case study). Uhhh... No? If my employer, or its customers, insisted I used my mom's computer to develop their software I would tell them to fuck right off.