http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/android-costs/
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how much investment is Google putting into Android for this open platform?
“Android cost isn’t material for the company,” Google CFO Patrick Pichette noted. He said that it’s important to remember that perhaps the key products for Android — the phone hardware — isn’t developed by Google at all. Droid X, for example, was entirely an investment by Motorola to make the device. “The entire ecosystem is exploding,” Pichette said.
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That is pretty amazing. I'm pretty sure development costs of Windows Phone 7 and iOS4 are pretty material to Microsoft and Apple. Shows how much the open source community is contributing, not just to the ecosystem, but to the core development.