The “Break it Down” Blog

Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform and Symbian UIQ.

Given that Motorola had already been a member of the Open Handset Alliance, the group behind Android, knowing full well what the platform was going to be enabled to do and seeing the T-Mobile G1 handset launch to strong sales and good reviews I think this move says a lot about exactly how powerful and ubiquitous we should expect the Android platform to be in the coming years. For a vendor as large as Moto to normalize their devices across a completely new platform, paying the ramp-up cost of kicking two long-term/vetted operating systems to the curb in leui of it, that speaks volumes in my mind.

2009 and 2010, the year of the smart phone for sure, but the year of Android? Maybe…

Thanks Slashdot!