Motorola Considering Its Own Smartphone OS, Android ?Shooting Itself In The Foot??

[Guamguy]

you forgot about motomagx. it was also used on the z6w (which i own).

motorola promised they would release the sdk for developers, and the last time i checked, that never happened.

i wouldn't be surprised if they do in fact pull the plug on android, but then again, motorola has a habit of making bad business decisions.

Motorola is very unlikely to ditch Android. Android fixed the one thing other mobile Linux OS can never have, which is having plenty of apps.

If Motorola is doing an HTML5 webOS, its likely not related to smartphones but tablets. Honeycomb pushed itself into a corner into a full power OS requiring a dual core CPU. In other words, expensive.

Honeycomb makes me rethink the validity of ChromeOS - a simple cloud based OS using HTML5 as its application framework. Maybe Motorola should just head straight to ChromeOS at all.

 

[jim_joe_bob]

Motorola is very unlikely to ditch Android. Android fixed the one thing other mobile Linux OS can never have, which is having plenty of apps.

what was wrong with j2me? the only thing different these days is that there are "app stores", whereas the only place to get apps for your phone was your provider's in-phone website, and therefore distribution is greater. the only downfall was that there was no common interface between the hardware and the software, meaning if your app might not work on every piece of hardware, which i believe still occurs in android (fragmentation?)... :-\

please note that i don't actually have a smartphone, i never got around to buying one, but i'm holding out that the tegra 2 will yield some interesting android phones...

 

[18annu18]

To I really don't think it is a good idea by Moto to develop thier own os. Because the key for any os is have a robust ecosystem such as an apps store, apps, content (media), devices and additional services such desktop sysnc, cloud computing, etc. I mean google/Android already has that ecosystem that motorala taps into. Everytime they make an androind devices. They don't need to develop thier own ecosystem to support whatever os they develop.
To me the days of the stand alone os is dead.

Sent by my droid

I agree, before Android, Motorola was was on life support in my opinion. Before the OG Droid, what was the last Motorola device that was notable? The Razr! The problem is that now with Android and iOS pretty much setting the standard for OS, everything that comes afterwards will get compared to those. Adoption of these platforms has been established and moving to another platform will be strange. I feel like for the mainstream market it's iOS or Android at this point. Motorola is is better off staying with Android and possibly developing a better skin than Motoblur.