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Motorola Backtracks on CEO's Comments Over 3rd Party Apps

By Seow Tein Hee - on 8 Jun 2011, 10:13am

Motorola Backtracks on CEO's Comments Over 3rd Party Apps

Damage control, that's what Motorola is attempting right now. Last week, Motorola's CEO Sanjay Jha mentioned that the company is "beginning to understand it and understand why 70 percent plus of devices that come back are because they're downloading third party applications and the impact that that has on the performance of the device." While it is seemingly directed at developers, Motorola has clarified that it is not meant to single out third party application developers as the reason for 70% of smartphone returns.

PC World - Motorola is backtracking on comments its CEO made last week about the impact Android apps have on phone performance. Last week, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said that the openness of the Android store leads to phone performance issues because there is no approval process to make sure that apps don't consume inordinate amounts of power or CPU. In addition, the fact that users can run many applications at once, results in a performance hit, he said.

Nonetheless, the damage is done, and we figure developers are just as flabbergasted over the comments by Jha.

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