- Motorola in its earnings call today said it is going to shift away from Windows 7 as its primary operating system used on it’s next generation of devices. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha said that they will be focusing on Android in the coming year. Why you ask? Because he said it’s better. Jha said it will wait for Microsoft to finish WinMo 7 before making any rash decisions to cut them out completely, but for the time being, change is desperately needed on the homefront for Motorola. Jha also said that Android is a smoother consumer experience and with the recent rise in third-party applications taking over the deck, an open platform for developers is they key ingredient to success (see: Apple).
- Motorola doesn’t have any time to waste. The company today posted a $3.6 billion loss in the fourth quarter, suspended its dividend and projected further losses in the first three months of 2009. Even worse, the days of the RAZR are long behind. Last year Motorola shipped about 19.2 million devices in the fourth quarter, compared with about 41 million in the year-ago period. Maybe that touch screen Krave wasn’t such a hot follow up idea after all. Image: AllthingsD
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