DeletedUser313
The price of the hardware required for security comparable to the Pixel 9 is going to cost, at OEM and very large order sizes, $500 plus dollars.
Assembly is likewise going to be expensive as you can't do it in China. GOS simply doesn't have the scale to even theoretically secure the assembly line in China to prevent potential supply chain attacks.
Which means you are realistically looking at another three to five hundred per phone in assembly costs.
If you could get a securely built GOS phone ready to be shipped to the end user for less than a thousand USD I would be shocked. And this is at zero profit margin. Push a 50% margin (which is quite low) and you are looking $1500 a copy for the bare minimum version.
Upping it to 1tb of storage, high quality speakers/camera/screen/battery, and 24gb of Ram would likely cost an additional $200 or so per phone.
So you can spend $1500 for the "8a" version or $1800 for the "9 pro" version. One of those phones is viable on the market, the other isn't.
One of the biggest selling points of GOS is that it is a (relatively) user friendly and powerful computer with high end out of the box security. Essentially, short of a top tier nation state targeting you, your device is secure against any technical exploitation.
No computer (desktop or laptop) can make a similar claim with any credibility.
The only thing really preventing a p9p with GOS from being a laptop replacement is Android's shitty support for desktop mode (which is being worked on).
If desktop mode was there then a dock with monitor, keyboard, mouse, and networking support would instantly make GOS the default for secure compute needs.