Motorola may have just developed the ‘first true anti-iPhone’

Given how different Google and Apple are in their business philosophies, it makes sense that the two companies would release smartphones that are poles apart as well. CNET’s Roger Cheng has posted a smart piece of analysis explaining how the new Moto X smartphone is a real challenge to Apple’s traditional tightly controlled approach to hardware and software. In particular, Cheng notes that Google is letting users customize their Moto X with different colors (including a wood pattern!), customized signatures and custom messages that appear when you flip on your phone. In this way, Google is betting that users will want a device that they can personalize in ways that they can’t with the iPhone or Samsung’s army of Galaxy

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