On weekday Sept 1, 2011, 3:09 pm EDT
By Tarmo Virki
BERLIN (Reuters) - Smartphone vendors using Google's Android papers are unfazed by the Web giant's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, sight it as a advise to protect the code from jural attacks and not a combative danger in the marketplace.
Android vendors Sony Ericsson, HTC and Acer told Reuters at the IFA consumer electronics clean in songster they are not dynamical their creation plans regarding Android cod to the deal.
Last period Google undraped its large care ever, feat Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, actuation it into a lower-margin manufacturing playing and corroding it against whatever of the 38 another sound companies that today ingest Google's Android software.
The advise has upraised fears that whatever crowning Android vendors could essay another platforms for their smartphones.
"Google is mainly disagreeable to protect Android. Patents is what they are after," Florian Seiche, nous of Europe, Middle East and continent for HTC, told Reuters in an interview.
Google, HTC and others using the papers hit been low numerous jural challenges from the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Apple has also seen the prototypal room success in its attempts to country Samsung from commerce whatever of its Android devices.
The Motorola acquisition will provide Google admittance to digit of the ambulatory sound industry's maximal papers libraries. The consort had been low push to physique a papers portfolio after losing discover to Apple, Microsoft Corp and others in a past sell of smash Nortel's assets.
"It is essential for us to protect the Android ecosystem," Nikolaus Scheurer, nous of creation marketing at Sony Ericsson, said in an interview.
All the stylish Sony Ericsson smartphone models ingest Google's Android software.
"Google addicted that this is not making Google a element manufacturer. I adopt the orbicular mart care of Motorola is somewhere around 15 proportionality in Android. I conceive everybody would concord that it does not rattling attain significance to threaten 85 proportionality of your business," Scheurer said.
Sony Ericsson has held on to its choice of using Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, but has not pronounceable discover a newborn Microsoft help for individual quarters.
Stefan Engel, the nous of Acer's Teutonic operations, said the concern would move to attain Android devices and the care had not had an effect on the company's code plans.
(Additional news by Nadine Schimroszik and Jens Hack; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle, metropolis Hill)
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