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Luan Bach

1:10 PM on 30 October, 2008

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I don't know, Motorola will jump on any bandwagon going. Have you ever been to one of their devs event ? They claim to support every system under the sun, Linux, Windows Mobile, Java, Brew, Symbian and their own OS etc. So I'm not really surprise that they are now on the Android ride. I reckon it's their lack of focus that is very damaging, imagine the bloated support system they'll need.

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Hallainzil

1:47 PM on 30 October, 2008

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If I was Motorola right now, what I would do is ditch every other OS and go for an Android-only approach, on every phone, from the smallest to the biggest. It might be novel enough to swing things favourably in their favour. I mean, what have they got to lose? They need something big, really big. If it continues on it's current path, it will either be out of the handset business or a marginal player with 12 months. (You could argue that they're already marginal, to be honest.)

Another thing would be to make their designers USE the phones they design - they might end up with some usable phones that way.

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Technologychangesandsoshouldyou

4:57 PM on 30 October, 2008

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Oh great, another software platform for their imbecile managers to fight for resources to support.

Streamline down to fewer OSes? No chance, there are too many power struggles and politicking to drop anything, and no-one will transfer resources to the new platform as it will look like their own little empire is waning.

Even if they do get a hardware platform together to run it on and enough software resource to get it integrated, they'll probably scupper the whole thing with a crappy UI (see UIQ murdered on the Z8/10), a stupid name (Moto ANDRD would be too obvious, so perfect) and an industrial design that combines the worst of whatever form-factor they choose.

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Gordon394

12:12 PM on 31 October, 2008

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'ANDRD'... absolutely love it, I may steal that! (Credited, of course!)

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Technologychangesandsoshouldyou

12:36 PM on 31 October, 2008

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You're welcome to it.

To paraphrase Spike Milligan:

'Welcome to your new Motorola.'

'Thank you, you're welcome to it too.'

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