Despite all that, Samsung didn’t stop there

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At the point where Motorola needed some help the most, Google showed up a white knight, grabbed Motorola, and put it on its shiny horse. But Knighthood alone doesn’t justify a $13.7 billion dollar acquisition, does it? So what could justify such a purchase? Largely, there were two main reasons that lead to this purchase, namely patents and Samsung. Regarding patents, Motorola had 17,000 patents, with 7,500 patents more pending – worth a few billion dollars in total. By acquiring Motorola, Google managed to build up the company’s patent portfolio which enabled it to better protect

Android from anti-competitive threats. And then, there was Samsung. Samsung was the driving Email List force behind Android, being the operating system’s main host. But that wasn’t enough for the South Korean tech company. Methodically, it was hiding Android’s existence through its interface, mainly through TouchWiz. The Samsung interface was released in 2010 and featured a full-touch user interface. At the end of the day, its bloatware was wasting storage space and slowing the operation of the Android.




It degraded Android’s performance furthermore, by switching out vast parts of the software – phone dialler, calendar, email client, contacts, notification center, music and video player, voice control, and much more – for its own apps. Google had grown tired of Samsung’s bloatware, skins, and gimmicks. Thanks to the Motorola acquisition, and all of its mobile-making capabilities, Google was about to teach a lesson in smartphone manufacturing.