[Nexus 6  General] Wbroshea:
Opinion definition from google (seemed appropriate to use their definition) - a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Wikipedia opinion entry, first line - In general, an opinion is a judgment, viewpoint, or statement about matters commonly considered to be subjective, i.e. based on that which is less than absolutely certain, and is the result of emotion or interpretation of facts. Opinions by definition are either not based on facts or interpretation of facts, but either way they are subjective. Since they are subjective and thus personal to each individual, an opinion cannot be proven by another individual as wrong since the opinions are subjective to the individual holding the opinion. One can present counter arguments in an attempt to change the others mind, one can present other facts, but interpretation of facts themselves is subjective (thus two scientists looking at the same results and coming to opposite conclusions). Even if one convinces every other single person in the world to share the same opinion as the one, a counter opinion has not been "proven" wrong.

Your extreme example describes an action, a reprehensible action,which was attempted to be justified by fake science. Completely different.

Who said anything was wrong with it? Your not providing rationale. Everyone knows the rationale behind the move, and google is free to choose to follow it. Your trying to convince others that the rationale is a sound choice to make (actually even more extreme by claiming the rationale as fact which proves others opinions wrong). Others are allowed to disagree with the choice to follow that rationale, and can even provide their rationale for the decision they would make.

Oh no, not the size/specs argument. I'll ignore operating system argument because the N5 will get it at release or real shortly after and other new phones will soon follow to so it is pretty much worthless as a boon for just the N6. The size specs are not the driving force behind the price when compared to Google's most recent offerings (which is really the only fair thing to compare a business model too, especially when that business releases a new product every year). N6 is 250 more than the N5. Specs/hardware to me describes the internal components. So for the size/specs to really be the driving force in cost then internals should account for most of that cost. The Note 4 (similar not the same but similar) had a tear down cost of $260. I seriously doubt the N5 at release had a tear down cost of $10. In fact my personal guess is that the N6 tear down and the N5 at release tear down was a difference of no more than $50. That is just a guess of course as I have not found a tear down estimation of a nexus phone. However, if my $50 is close then I don't think the size/specs are really the driving cost compared to googles recent offerings. The price increase/change must derive from somewhere else. The only other options I can think of are advertising (I think we have established at best there isn't much), R&D (I have seen nothing to indicate the N6 R&D would be higher than the N5 R&D), or a change in business philosophy.

Assuming advertising and R&D are similar to the N5 as they seem to be, the remainder of the price increase must be related to a business choice made by google. That remainder of the price may be accounted for by any combination of the following: choice to make more money per phone, used to entice the providers to offer the phone on contract, or even your perceived value argument which is valid, or something else that we haven't thought of. The problem is though, I don't put any value on any of those other options. In fact the contract one, for me, provides a disincentive. So when compared to Google's recent offerings, no I personally see a significant portion of the N6's cost that provides no value or devalues the product. Of course if you want to compare to others or history then sure you can claim it to justified, but I see no reason to do that seeing as the company in question provides a product almost yearly and has been consistent in there pricing structure over two consecutive cycles. Plus, comparing to other products doesn't really counter my argument that something has changed with Google's recent philosophy in selling phones, really that just goes to your perceived value argument. Same as ignoring the last few years and comparing to the Galaxy Nexus, just because they have done it in the past doesn't change the fact that they moved away from that practice but have now moved back to that practice. Seems only fair to say that something changed with their philosophy after the N5 and that philosophy change provides no value to me. Maybe to others but not to me. I don't need to convince others to think like me, but I will defend my right to have that opinion.

Wait a minute, didn't you say you wanted to let this go? :D