Google’s recent plan to buy Motorola Mobility has the potential for reshaping the entire Android landscape. If it wins regulatory approval for the purchase, Google may only have a short time span to connect its marketing strategy. When and if this happens, it could further fracture the open source Android operating system. Depending on how Google follows its purchase of a hardware division, a future release of Android might usher in a more tightly controlled platform.
Google is the only player in the game that has a business plan based on raising the tide across the boards for mobile computing, in all form factors, come-one come-all, gloves off, pipeline-be-damned. They won't do anything with Googlerola to contradict that.
Evolution is messy, tightly controlled ecosystems are cleaner (and therefore many bloggers, developers, and investors like them more) ... but the evolution model is what ultimately HAS to win the day, as mobile computing scales out way beyond the current smartphone/tablet limited-niche artificial ecology. And a closed, proprietary OS can't participate in that evolution in the same way.
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Google and Moto: The Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios
Posted by: Jack M. Germain September 20, 2011 05:00 AMGoogle’s recent plan to buy Motorola Mobility has the potential for reshaping the entire Android landscape. If it wins regulatory approval for the purchase, Google may only have a short time span to connect its marketing strategy. When and if this happens, it could further fracture the open source Android operating system. Depending on how Google follows its purchase of a hardware division, a future release of Android might usher in a more tightly controlled platform.
Evolution is messy, tightly controlled ecosystems are cleaner (and therefore many bloggers, developers, and investors like them more) ... but the evolution model is what ultimately HAS to win the day, as mobile computing scales out way beyond the current smartphone/tablet limited-niche artificial ecology. And a closed, proprietary OS can't participate in that evolution in the same way.