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Motorola’s recently-appointed co-CEO, Sanjay Jha, is paring down Moto’s OS support to three: Windows Mobile for business, P2k (their proprietary OS) for the low end, and Android to fill in the gaps. This means thousands of Motorola developers who are not related to these platforms are at risk of getting the Pink Slip of Doom. We had already heard that Motorola’s working on some kind of social-networking-centric Andoid device, and they were cranking up their Android division a fair bit, but not to the extent that other OSes would be shoved out the door. It does make sense to focus your efforts, though, and it’s not like the folks at Moto are strangers to layoffs…
[Wall Street Journal via Gizmodo]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
