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Re: Will Motorola Bet the Farm on Android?
Posted by: Jeff Meisner 2008-10-30 05:36:10

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Struggling wireless phone maker Motorola will cut more jobs and focus on designing handheld devices that run Google's new open source Android operating system. The company will pare down the number of operating systems for which it currently creates mobile phones to just three: Android, Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Motorola's proprietary P2K platform. The hoped-for effect of these moves is a streamlining of an unwieldy wireless division, which Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha was hired to clean up in August.

Android is from Motorola
Posted by: linuxgui 2008-10-30 07:26:52 In reply to: Jeff Meisner

What the text seems to be missing is that Android is Motorola's own software.

Motorola don't have to pay for use the platform.
They Own it.

The Android OS is owned by a consortium that has Motorola as one of it members.

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html