During Google ’s earnings call today , Google executives made it clear that the acquisition of Motorola comes with quite a bit of baggage . More specifically , Google has “ inherit a 12 - 18 month product pipeline ” that Google CFO Patrick Pichette articulate the party is “ still working through . ” Yikes .
The deal , which close up last May for $ 12.5 billionhasn’t amounted to much eight months later . With 12 to 18 months of existing product in the works , we may not see a more Google - yAndroidphone from Motorola till the summer or beyond . Or maybe we ’ll see one at I / O this May . More likely , though , is an October or November timeframe for a possible Motorola - builtNexusdevice .
https://gizmodo.com/googles-motorola-buy-is-official-now-5912261
For what it ’s worth , thefirst flagship Nexus devicewas announced in January of 2010 . Since then the last three Nexus smartphones have been exhaust in November or December of the undermentioned year . Kind of a bummer that we ’re cash in one’s chips to have to hold back even longer to see what Google and Motorola have in the work . If anything at all .
https://gizmodo.com/nexus-one-review-5443835
Even more surprising was Page and his skipper ’s solution to most question during the Q&A. So , what ’s the deal with Shopping ? Fiber ? Android ? Google TV ? Glass ? Whatever ? ‘ Oh , you jazz , we ’ll see what happens . ’ For Google , the future is n’t lookup or ad . tax income from both are only go bad to fire thefuture of the company : roving computing . Glassis clearly do , though we have no thought what the blaze that ’s going to be but at least Android is in a dominant position . So yeah , we ’ll see what happens .
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