Is Google’s latest acquisition of Motorola Mobility a ploy for Google to create their own line of Android based phones, pure Google like the Nexus line of phones offered by Google, HTC? Google has released in press statements that the acquisition was strictly for patents, but why would a software provider need with patents? I am under the impression they are going to produce a strictly Google device and compete directly with Apple and their iPhone and possibly iPad devices.

If, for example, Google provides preferential access to the Android code to its own hardware division, this would place other vendors at a disadvantage and may lead them to question their commitment to the platform, potentially pushing some towards other platforms, given Google’s recent moves to exert greater control of the implementation of the Android platform, such as restricting access to the Android source code to select hardware partners, such a move is not beyond the realm of the imagination.

If this happens, the beneficiary would be Microsoft and the Windows Phone platform, because many larger Android manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, HTC and ZTE are also Windows Phone licensees.

As the move was announced, Android partners Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC and LG issued almost identical statements to each other. They all insisted in essence that they “welcome” the news of Google’s “commitment to defending Android”.

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