<story><title>Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/review-googles-179-moto-g-puts-every-single-cheap-android-phone-to-shame/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>If Google&amp;#x27;s plan is to leave the high-end of smartphones to its Android &amp;quot;partners&amp;quot; and stake out the low end with Motorola, that seems pretty smart. Its partners get to keep the high-margin hardware business that Google doesn&amp;#x27;t need anyway, Google puts a floor on how bad the low-end phones can be and still make it to market. And yeah, Google isn&amp;#x27;t in the position of competing with companies that it needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cabbeer</author><text>The divide between &amp;quot;High end&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Low end&amp;quot; devices is beginning to blur. The improvements to high end devices are providing diminishing returns, while all the &amp;quot;essentials&amp;quot; have trickled down to low end devices.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/12/review-googles-179-moto-g-puts-every-single-cheap-android-phone-to-shame/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justin66</author><text>If Google&amp;#x27;s plan is to leave the high-end of smartphones to its Android &amp;quot;partners&amp;quot; and stake out the low end with Motorola, that seems pretty smart. Its partners get to keep the high-margin hardware business that Google doesn&amp;#x27;t need anyway, Google puts a floor on how bad the low-end phones can be and still make it to market. And yeah, Google isn&amp;#x27;t in the position of competing with companies that it needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naner</author><text>The Moto X and Google&amp;#x27;s own Nexus series appear to be pretty high end. I don&amp;#x27;t think this is their plan at all.</text></comment>