If they got Samsung to kill Touchwiz, or at least seriously tone it down, and follow Google's UI vision more, along with other stuff that leads to a stronger un

If they got Samsung to kill Touchwiz, or at least seriously tone it down, and follow Google's UI vision more, along with other stuff that leads to a stronger unification of the Android ecosystem under Google's own leadership, than giving up Motorola was totally worth it, considering Samsung owns 40 percent of the Android devices. So them adopting Google's more strict guidelines would be a sea change in the market. I also think Google getting access to Samsung's patents for the next 10 years was pretty genius, because Samsung builds everything, and from what I've seen lately, Google is kind of moving in the same direction, too.