Google's layoff of 4,000 Motorola Mobility workers today—just three months after buying the company for $12.5 billion—is the first step in a high-stakes bet that it can reinvent Motorola as a competitor to Apple and Samsung using cutting-edge new technology.
But it will be a challenge to actually come up with a smartphone that makes a dent in a marketplace so heavily dominated by Apple and Samsung—all while convincing the handset makers that use Google's Android operating system that Google won't favor its own device.
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