To be fair, the author does call it a product success (# of activations per day could be used as a metric to support that). But then he/she attempts to call it

To be fair, the author does call it a product success (# of activations per day could be used as a metric to support that). But then he/she attempts to call it a business failure because of these Motorola losses. That's WAY off the mark. Android is a strategic product intended to protect their real business (advertising) in the mobile space.