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Another point to consider is that Motorola has become a very healthy and popular phone brand. Especially with their inexpensive stock Android phones. Google mus

• yread 9y ago
  but it's owned by Lenovo now, so Google is not profiting from that? Or is that not what you mean?
  • rifung 9y ago
    You can benefit from it without profiting directly. I think Google benefits from Android adoption as a whole since that usually means adoption of Google services
    • egeozcan 9y ago
      Some user here (seems I'm not able to find him/her) on HN mentioned that they also feared that Samsung would be switching to their own thing, dropping Android and that may have been a factor in their decision to sell Motorola as they really want to keep everyone in the Android boat. Made sense to me, at least.
  • dspillett 9y ago
    Good phones running almost stock Android are useful from a marketing PoV for both positive (as a showcase for the OS) and negative (good devices that aren't running iOS/Windows/other) reasons. Their adoption helps increase the market share of the OS so makes creating content for them (apps in the Play store, and so forth) more attractive again indirectly helping because all Android devices potentially benefit from that. So not a profit in any easily measured $ terms, but definitely a benefit.