Larry Page (Google CEO) claims it was move to protect Android against anti-competitive attacks on android and it's partners. He also states Moto division will run as it's own business so moto will continue to compete on it's own merit and not as a Google business. This we will have to see.
Google usually partners up with a different HW vendor for their "Google Experience" products. I just don't see them partnering up with anybody else after this. Hopefully they do and continue to maintain an open platform philosophy.
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