>Google‘s $ 12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility may have been given the go-ahead settings on both sides of the Atlantic, but the prospects for other OEM Android – and users – remains unclear. The agreement, which referred to several months for fear that the hardware and control software in Google’s Android may give an unfair advantage, Motorola is likely to send competitors like Samsung, HTC and LG rushed to the drawing board as it faces the challenge to compete with dominant force behind their main platform. However, as Andy Rubin said last August, Motorola is not always a lock-in for the next Nexus device.
Sought to assure critics that the accord will come, Android arch Rubin explains that Google intends to accomplish the Motorola adaptable phones as a abstracted company. When it was partnered on the Nexus accessories in the future, he said, Motorola corpuscle buzz “would be allotment of the behest process” but is not affirmed to win.
However, Rubin’s comments denying the obvious interest of Google in the upcoming Motorola product line, something chairman Eric Schmidt admitted in September last year. “We are confident that Motorola’s mobile team has some amazing products to come … We are delighted to have a product line, to use the Motorola brand, product architecture, engineer” Schmidt said, “[we like] having at least one area where we can perform an integrated hardware and software. ”
Precisely how these two approaches will be acknowledged charcoal to be seen. Motorola adaptable phones has apparent itself accommodating to yield on Google at its own game, blame out a developer adaptation of the RAZR DROID to claiming the bogus Samsung Galaxy Nexus, even if the added manufacturers get a arrangement in the approaching of Nexus, they will accept to face the anticipation of aggressive Motorola adaptable accessories are potentially as abundant ascribe from Google as they do themselves. Rubin declared the action as the Nexus, “all the teams [from Google and OEM] awash calm in one building, their collective development plan and accomplishment that lasted for 9-12 months”, something that seems acceptable aswell be the case for Google’s greater captivation in Motorola’s ambit will come.
For consumers, there is still no guarantee that the devices they buy will be running the latest version of Android or, even, get timely updates. Motorola’s track record has been uneven; Xoom tablet release in early 2011 with all but the name that points to there being an “official” Google Android slate, but lagged behind its competitors in order to refresh the OS. Meanwhile, Motorola continues with UI modifications for a variety of smartphones, contributing to the delay in the update there.
