It's baffling that Google sold off Motorola right when they finally have a pipeline of really nice competitive devices coming out. I wonder if it was competitive worries from Samsung that got them to sell.
The other manufacturers while not a cartel where in no hurry to reduces pricess and the stuff available at point was horrible shit like the Orange San Francisco.
Moto is a far better company now, but also a much smaller and lower-value company.
One could also say buying Nokia was Microsoft's biggest brain fart. Google has managed to clean house faster.