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You know who really stands to be hurt by Google's plan to sell Motorola to Lenovo? Apple. However, if you're an... to at all. Time now for everybody's favorite game, Count Pointer Count.

On the Apple will be Hurt side, CNET.

The big red ball says the iPhone maker will now face a more focused Google as well as a stronger

Lenovo, both of which could cause problems for the all things I maker down the

road. The argument's interesting. The way that report sees it Google's ownership of Motorola caused tension between it and the other Android vendors, especially Samsung.

That tension led to those vendors developing their own software and services,

according to the piece, instead of pushing the services

Google was putting out.

That, the piece says, amplified Android's fragmentation

in the market.

Interesting, though potentially oversimplified.

Androids fragmentation was a thing long before Google bought Motorola.

So was the addition of various services from both carriers and manufacturers where Android was concerned.

The addition of such services from a manufacturer's side gives them a way to differentiate the phones that they're making

from the countless other Android phones out there. Meanwhile the addition of such

services from a carrier side is yet another chance to monetize. Pay me five more dollars a month for this service or three more dollars a month for that.

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