Google is just looking for good PR because their plan is to sell assemblies instead of individual parts. As an example, say on the phone’s motherboard a particular chip died, instead of replacing just that one piece Google wants to to sell you a whole new board at a cost so high that most people would probably consider just buying a new phone instead. They even attack Apple by suggesting governments should ban part pairing so they can look like the good guys.
That’s great news! I hope for the next game they focus on Athena and bring back Franziska as prosecutor so we can get more character development from them both.