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>>joseph+(OP)
Hmm while this could be sold as just to prevent leaks (which occasionally happen), I think this is more likely a first step to closing the source, in light of the EU messing up their open source monetisation strategy.

Well, more like the 5th step really. They already moved a ton of functionality into Google Play Services, and discontinued a load of the open source stock apps like Calendar.

>>IshKeb+Jd
Google kinda irked me when they purchased Motorola - I was hopeful we'd get nice hardware with the android team focused on making android better but they instead gutted the company and sold it off and android has been more solid on non Google devices from what I can tell. From pixels not having an operating system shipping to people to pixels 4 and 7 having notable worse camera features (I should note I'm biased to how well the camera works since it's one of my three main uses of a smartphone) compared to say the Nexus 6 phones.

I've wondered if android and pixel breaking off Google would be a good thing or not honestly since there is talk about cutting chrome off.

>>hyperc+1A
The real hidden gem in that deal would have been keeping Motorola's cable set-top box. It owned more than half of the cable box market, and would have been an opportunity to push YouTube TV and Google TV into the hands of the majority of the market overnight.