Google's $12 Billion Toy - WSJ.com

From a Google/Motorola Mobility reality check

"So, it's gut-check time. Does Google sincerely want to be a company that makes actual stuff?
I've spent the last three weeks talking to people inside Motorola and Google and out, trying to solve the riddle. The disquieting answer is that there appears to be no sense that a choice is even required. There's only a cocky belief that Google really can be all things at once: a hardware company with software margins, and a neutral Android arms dealer that just happens to be building its own Motorola army on the side."

Google's $12 Billion Toy - WSJ.com