In two years, we'll mark the thirtieth jubilee of the first commercially gettable cellphone -- built by Motorola, incidentally. Given this week's big news from Google, and other big events that we can only presume are yet to come, those two years may also prove to be some of the most interesting yet for the mobile industry.



One of the more telling things about Google's acquisition announcement on Monday was the backlash from Motorola's competitors (and Google's partners). first off




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candidly coming the news, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC and LG all came out to praise Google's commitment to "defending Android," which presumably also means that they remain committed to using Android. What's more, as Google itself has made explicitly clear recently, it's not just defending Android as any company would defend its own product, but defending it against what it's described as "hostile" and "organized" threat from Apple and Microsoft (and, to a lesser extent, Oracle).



That increasingly hostile footing and a further-bolstered Google (assuming the acquisition goes through) also now creates some clearer lines and an entirely new dynamic between the major players in the mobile industry. Google and Microsoft are now taking similar approaches by licensing out their operating expenses expenses system to others while also having a hand in housewares evolvement (by proxy with Nokia in the case of Microsoft). Neither are about to go as fully independence as Apple has, of course, but they both seem to have decided that it's no longer enough to just focus on disk overhead system and leave manufacturers entirely to their own devices.



That leaves RIM and HP who, like Apple, are each trying to go it alone with their own utensils and mobile overhead system -- use 'although' HP is ostensibly open to the idea of licensing webOS if it has any takers (an option that seems to be getting less and less likely). The inquire now is will they succeed by staying out of the fray, or will they be forced to join it and choose sides?

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