Google’s purchase of Motorola not only provides an opportunity for the developers of Android to unify the operating system on a single platform they represent a very strong competitor to Apple. While these two factors alone are significant perhaps even more significant is Larry Page’s recognition of the short and long term impact of technology by pointing the fact that:
Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, and the impact of that transition will be profound–as will the ability to just tap and pay with your phone.
Google’s purchase of Motorola is just one more very significant building block in the Post-PC era.
