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Keeping Android open whilst treating their own phone manufacturing fairly will be a big challenge for Google. I hope they manage it. If done correctly the resul
by Jabbles 15y ago
Keeping Android open whilst treating their own phone manufacturing fairly will be a big challenge for Google. I hope they manage it. If done correctly the result should be a improvement in Android for all manufacturers, as the internal demands of Motorola will want to be heard, but cannot be prioritised.
I am still puzzled as to how Skype cost $8billion.
FYI Motorola Mobility had 24,500 patents when it was launched. http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Press-Releases/Motorola-Mobility-Launches-as-Independent-Company-352b.aspx http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Press-Releases/Motorola-Mobi...
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoThis will indeed be a challenge: keeping the interests of their own cell phone division and third party hardware makers. Might be just another "HTC Sense" type skin added to Android...
- jonursenbach 15y agoMotorola already has that with Motoblur.
- cincinnatus 15y agoIf they have any sense they are already negotiating the sale of the physical business on to someone else. Keep the patent portfolio and recuop $6 billion of the initial outlay. Also, "open" in name only.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoWho would be interested in buying a marginally profitable manufacturing business in a highly competitive market for any significant amount of money. Besides, I think Google are doing this, in part, to produce what everyone has been asking for - an Android phone without the crap heaped on it, a phone that will allow people to judge Android for what it is rather than for what Samsung, HTC and others think it should be.
- rbanffy 15y ago> Also, "open" in name only. "open" as in: $ repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git
- lojack 15y agoI believe the point is that google can now produce closed source motorola specific software, and not that android is no longer open source software.
- rbanffy 15y agoGoogle always could. The Google apps you find on your Android phone are not open-source. HTC's Sense or Motorola's Blur aren't open source either. In fact, everyone could. My Nook is full of proprietary software. Android is just a software environment people build apps on top. The open-source core is fairly decent when compared to the competition, but no phone manufacturer I know ships only that.
- kinofcain 15y ago"open" would be if that actually got me the latest code.
- rbanffy 15y agoI may be mistaken, but I believe (and you can check if you want) the last commit on that tree happened 40 hours ago.