Apple products bear a now-familiar slogan: “Designed by Apple in California | Assembled in China.” Google is taking a different approach in building what it says is the very first smartphone ever be to be made in America. As mentioned by my former Wired colleague Dylan Tweney on LinkedIn Today, Google’s Motorola division is opening a…
Google bought Motorola Mobility yesterday, causing all sorts of twittering and speculation in a normally news-dry month. One thing is certain: Motorola’s “Mobility” division has the wrong name. It might instead be thought of as Motorola’s app hardware division, because it houses the company’s smartphone, tablet, and television set-top box businesses. And there’s nothing “mobile”…
Google announced that it will buy Motorola Mobility on Monday morning, another play that seems borrowed from Apple’s playbook. The reported $12.5 billion cash deal will let Google make its own hardware for its own operating system, just like Apple does. (Motorola spun off its smartphone and tablet division into Motorola Mobility in January.) Android has…
