Motorola may be developing its own OS for mobile devices
Motorola has been a strong manufacturer of Android devices. It helped Android gain commercial success when it released the first Droid smartphone in 2009. It was so successful, “Droid” became the go-to term casual consumers would use when referring to Android in general. Most recently, Motorola released the Xoom tablet. It’s the first tablet to run Android 3.0, which is also the first Android OS optimized for tablets. Amid growing competition and potential market saturation of Android devices, Motorola is rumored to be working on an operating system that will help its products stand out from the crowd.
According to an anonymous source speaking to Information Week, Motorola is working on a web-based mobile OS using former engineers from Adobe and Apple. Motorola has neither confirmed or denied these reports. If this is true, the OS could either replace Android completely, or simply work beside it. The development efforts that are supposedly going down at Motorola Mobility suggest that we aren’t looking at another Android skin such as Motoblur.
