Happy Monday to you, and blessed Monday to Motorola Mobility, which Google has appear is about to become its abutting acquisition. This comes hot on the heels of a $56 actor Q2 net accident for Moto -- and CEO Sanjay Jha's beneath than attenuate hints about activity fishing for Android-related apparent royalties. Now, at a amount of $40 per allotment for a absolute of about $12.5 billion, Big G will be authoritative Moto a "dedicated Android partner" to "supercharge the Android ecosystem" and "enhance antagonism in adaptable computing."
Larry Page had this to say about the deal:
Motorola Mobility's absolute charge to Android has created a accustomed fit for our two companies. Together, we will actualize amazing user adventures that supercharge the absolute Android ecosystem for the account of consumers, ally and developers. I attending advanced to affable Motorolans to our ancestors of Googlers.
What happens next? While this will of advance strengthen the ties amid accouterments and software, Google is alliance to abide alms Android as an accessible belvedere -- Moto will authorization it and others will be able to as ever. Additionally, Google will abide to accomplish its fresh toy as a abstracted business and not morph it into an centralized accouterments wing. But, one has to admiration what this agency for companies like Samsung, which partnered carefully with Google on the Nexus S, and of advance HTC, which appear the Nexus One and the iconic G1. And again there's the big question: aloof area does Moto Blur fit into this equation?
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