Skyhook: Google forced Motorola to drop our location service, delay the Droid X
We figured Skyhook's business interference and patent infringement lawsuits against Google would turn up some dirt, and we didn't have long to wait: the location-services company's complaint flatly alleges that Google's Andy Rubin ordered Motorola's Sanjay Jha to "stop ship" on the Droid X because it used Skyhook's XPS positioning system instead of Google Location Services, a tiff that ultimately delayed the phone's release while Moto reworked the software and dropped Skyhook entirely. Following that, Skyhook claims that Google then went after an unidentified "Company X" ( likely Samsung ) and forced it to drop XPS as well. Ouch
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: compliance, definition, digging-as-hard, droid, google location service, google-location, htc, legal, location, positioning, skyhook
Motorola gives Google the boot, turns to Skyhook for location services
Well, this is... something.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: corelocation, developers, droid, engadget, google-android, moto, news, phone, pretty-stoked, release, shot-on-its, skyhook, skyhookwireless, wifi