14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Motorola might consider coming to the market with its own mobile operating system, some of the latest reports around the Internet suggest. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to split into two entities, one focused on the building of mobile phones, which might have its own platform to pre-load devices with.
According to a recent article on Android and Me, Motorola has acquired the almost unknown mobile platform company Azingo. The small firm has its own mobile OS, called Azingo Mobile, which includes a series of comprehensive applications like a Webkit-based browser, web runtime, Flash runtime, and full developer tools.
In addition, Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola, recently hinted at the possibility that the handset vendor would own an operating system. When drawing a line between these dots, one would easily assume that the phone maker might not be too far from announcing plans to launch devices powered by its own platform. However, nothing is official at the moment, and it remains to be seen if Motorola indeed launches its own OS, especially since it currently has strong a partnership with Google on Android.
“I’ve always felt that owning your OS is important, provided you have an ecosystem, you have all the services and you have an ability and the scale to execute on keeping that OS at the leading edge. And I continue to believe that at some point, if we have all of those attributes, that owning our own OS will be a very important thing,” Sanjay Jha stated.
Undoubtedly, owning a mobile platform might help Motorola regain some of the market share it lost during the past several quarters, yet in the end things are not as easy at they may seem. Other leading vendors already made the move or said they consider making it, and having too many OSes available in a crowded space as the smartphone market might not prove to be a winning bet.