> **Motorola Mobility, which has been Google’s only major licensee fully committed to Android, is now working on a new web-based mobile operating system apparently intended to give it more control over its future, enraging Android advocates anew just weeks after Nokia opted against adopting Google’s mobile OS.**
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> Word of Motorola’s new project was [reported](http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097) by *Information Week*, which attributed “a source familiar with the matter.”
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> While the company issued an email statement insisting that “Motorola Mobility is committed to Android as an operating system,” it did not deny that it was also working on its own competing mobile operating system project.
via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/motorola_hedging_android_bet_with_new_web_based_os.html)
Translation: We don’t like the looks of Android’s future, particularly on tablets.
This is not surprising at all to me. Companies are finally coming around to the idea that trading Microsoft for Google is not a smart long-term strategy. If you want to succeed in the “Post-PC” era, as Apple calls it, you have to make the whole widget. Get the software and the hardware tightly integrated. Can’t do that when you let Google run the software side.
The only question is, when will someone out there succeed with an alternative operating system? I’d love to see Palm’s WebOS succeed, but they still seem to be severely lacking developer interest. I just don’t see any other companies out there with a credible track record in mobile software.
