Does This Justify Google Inc (GOOG)’s Motorola Mobility Acquisition?

Google is also exploring ways to incorporate cutting-edge technologies into its Moto X smartphone, including electronic tattoos and wearable devices to confirm a Moto X user’s identity. As Google continues to push the envelope, and combines its drive for innovation with taking ownership of its own OEM devices, who knows where its smartphone will end and an all-in-one mobile device begin? A lack of innovation has been mentioned time and again as one reason Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s share price has declined so dramatically lately. That’s not likely to be a problem for a Google-driven Motorola Mobility device.

Unseating Apple in the U.S. isn’t going to happen overnight, if it happens at all. With 39% of the domestic smartphone market as of Q1 of 2013, Apple actually stretched its lead over Samsung (at least in the U.S.). Not surprisingly, Google’s Android continues to rule the OS roost, running 52% of all Americans’ smartphones in Q1. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s OS market domination, along with its willingness to push technology to new heights, bode well for Google’s latest foray. Maybe Page knew what he was doing when he plopped down $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, after all.

The article Does This Justify Google’s Motorola Mobility Acquisition? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Tim Brugger.

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