Motorola richtet sich schon auf eine weitere lange Durststrecke ein:
"New cell phones using Windows Mobile 6.5 won't be ready until the second half of 2009, and cell phones using the Android system won't be ready until holiday 2009. As a result, Motorola is expected to fall further behind in market share in the first half of next year."
Konzentration auf drei Betriebssysteme und die Hintergründe warum Motorola (s.o.) noch solch eine lange Durststrecke einplant:
"Motorola is scrapping a Linux-based operating system platform it was developing for mid-tier cell phones. The company will streamline the number of software platforms by using three: Google's Android system, Windows Mobile and its own system, P2K. Android has been designed to match the hardware requirement of Windows Mobile, so this means that one hardware design can be used for two phones with almost no modification (one using Windows and one using Android). Also on the plus side is that there will be no software license fee to pay. The down side is that Android is not a yet a platform, it's a point product. This means that an awful lot of work needs to be done before it can be dropped into different form factors and user experience scenarios. And Android has a high hardware requirement meaning that it can really address only the upper end of the market. This, combined with the limitations of P2K, means that Motorola will not be addressing the high volume, high value feature phone segments until at least 2010."
Und die Risiken des neuen Androids sind auch nicht zu verachten:
"There is also the problem that the eco-system is at high risk of fragmentation. Google makes no guarantee of backward compatibility and putting the software into the open source community means that software development will be uncontrolled.
The net result means that there will likely be a high-end Android device or two late in 2009 but not much else.
It also means that the mass smartphone market will remain effectively unaddressed for all of next year and probably most of 2010.
And should the Android platform fragment, Motorola will have to maintain the entire stack itself to preserve compatibility potentially incurring added development costs."
