Motorola's Jha says MOTOBLUR brand will fade from view
By Donald Melanson 
posted August 9th 2010 5:26PM
posted August 9th 2010 5:26PM
We'd already had a pretty good indication that Motorola was shifting its strategy when it came to MOTOBLUR, and it looks like co-CEO Sanjay Jha has now finally made that move official. Speaking on the company's Q2 earnings call, Jha said that while MOTOBLUR will continue to be incorporated into some of it's phones, Motorola has decided that it will "focus on the value proposition of products and not MOTOBLUR as a brand name in its own right." Jha further went on to explain that "being able to convey the value proposition around MOTOBLUR is not an easy thing to do in a 30-second ad spot," but insisted that "MOTOBLUR continues to be important," and added that he thinks "you will see increased functionality in MOTOBLUR" -- you just won't be seeing the MOTOBLUR name much in public anymore.
@angelnilo06 B.I.H. MOTOBLUR
FTFY
I bet this means they'll be focusing less on updating the Cliq XT and other Motoblur phones, which are still running Android 1.5 - though at least 2.1 is in testing.. I don't expect to see froyo, and the Cliq XT isn't rooted yet, so I'm stuck with 1.5.. Android fragmentation, ftl.
I was always more a fan of Pulp.
actually, i dont mind motoblur. with a bit of love, i think it would be halfway decent. right now its 25% decent. but i use adw.launcher with my fancy widget so i can have the big sense clock with the froyo laucher look. it all works pretty well on my moment. best phone w/o froyo imo. will be better when the froyo alpha goes to beta and RCs.
To be honest all they had to do on the x was black out the notification bar and maybe change the launcher.
You can add widgets but atleast make them look good. They can't hire ONE guy with enough sense to see they their UI is completely hideous?
Hell they could've hired a guy from xda to make their skin.. they do a better job than most of these companies anyway.
Not a fan of Blur, but not a fan of ending "skinning" either. I really like HTC Sense. If these skins had easy on/off options, and could be disabled if you wanted an android update early until the skin is updated, it would be the best of both worlds.
@Vince730 Can't do that. The manufacturers would still have to update drivers and other things to get Stock runnning. That's why the Droid didn't get 2.2 until just now. What Google needs to do is make the manufacturers make their software and skins optional and give secure access to rooting. Then you could flash the latest AOSP builds, and if the devices can be easily unlocked, then more people would make fully functional AOSP builds. That would be a win!
What do they call whats running on the Driod X and Driod 2?
@InfDaMarvel
The dog stool experience
BlahBlahBlah!!!!!!!
Just kill it off already. MOTOBLUR is super tacky.
That KINda reminds me of Microsoft's salvage.
@HektikLyfe I see what you did there. +
Get rid of Blur all together and be the only Android phone maker that gives us stock Android OS'.
Now if they could get rid of the software along with the brand name, that would be great.
@Critic2029
Wasn't the first phone with social skills the Ki- ... oh wait. Never mind...
=P.
KINMOTOBLUR - the new name.
It was all a Blur to begin with.
Why don't they just give us the option to disable it? We can download alternate launchers from the market... why not just have a setting that lets us disable Motoblur? Android isn't about forcing you to use stuff, it's about giving you the option.
someone likes their cake :)
MOTOPOOP
Motorola Jah mon! Bumbleclot! I'm da rude boy! Higher den a green snake in a sugar cane tree mon!
Motorola Jah! I n I be feelin kinda irie!
My new phone came MOTOBLUR'd
and so it runs like a MOTOTURD.
I want my Android 2.0 already! Where's my promised update Moto?