Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership

siliconbits writes "It looks as if Motorola Mobility could be mulling plans to build an alternative to Google's mobile platform. Several independent sources have confirmed that the mobile phone company is working on a web-based mobile operating system to, as one observer put it, have more control on its own destiny. There's another piece in that puzzle; Motorola Mobility could take even more ownership of its destiny by reviving its ARM license as it depends at the moment on TI and Nvidia to provide the SoCs that power its products; Motorola did produce ARM systems-on-chips in the past."

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[AlienIntelligence]

Android has also been losing it's mojo, and is getting legal threats from everywhere.

If by everywhere, you mean, its competition... yeah... what else is new?
[ http://www.itworld.com/open-source/140916/android-sued-microsoft-not-linux ]
And Android, ie, Google isn't being sued, only companies that are involved
with it. Typical intimidation tactics.

Furthermore... if Google finds there to be any merit and since they aren't
being sued (yet), they simply can change whatever is the issue, or license
it... throw brain cells or money at it and it will go away. Android won't go
away... but the lawsuits eventually will.

Lastly... it's piddly things like this:
Patent # 5,778,372 (July 7, 1998): "Getting remote deployment and management of an electronic document with embedded images." Patent # 6,339,780 (January 15, 2002): "Status of loading in a hypermedia browser having a limited display area on screen."
Patent # 5,889,522 (March 30, 1999): "A system that provides controls to the derived windows."
Patent # 6,891,551 (May 10, 2005): "Management selection in editing electronic documents."

...that will get the snip of a few lines of code and problem is gone.

-AI