“Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said on Tuesday that his company is planning to roll out tablets with ‘aggressive form factors’ later this year, while also indicating that smartphones remain the top priority,” Josh Ong reports for AppleInsider.
“When asked what the company learned from the launch of the Xoom tablet, Jha said that tablet price points had ‘moved much faster’ than Motorola had expected,” Ong reports. “The company had trouble matching the price of its entrenched competitor, Apple’s iPad. During the keynote, Jha deemphasized the tablet market, remarking that Motorola remains focused on the smartphone. ‘As important as tablet is, I continue to believe that smartphones are much more important as a computing device,’ he said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Because you can’t compete and the derivative OS you use is about to either cost you and/or cause your products to be pulled off store shelves – not to mention suffers from horrible AppLack™.
Ong reports, “Jha candidly said that Motorola is ‘completely open to the notion of Windows as a platform,’ despite the fact that all of the company’s focus is currently on Android. Android is ‘the ecosystem that we’re proud to be a part of,’ he said. ‘We’re not leading the charge with Windows 8, but as we become comfortable that that’s a viable ecosystem…we might consider it,’ Jha said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Jha sees the writing on the wall.
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MacDailyNews Take: You can’t match what Apple offers without your own OS and, even then, as HP, RIM, Nokia, and others prove daily, you can’t match what Apple offers.