There have been many responses and confusion, after the Moto X announcement, yesterday. Analysts are not super enthused, T-Mobile customers may have fewer options, cheaper models are coming and some people should be concerned about privacy.
Many analysts noted that Google's Moto X is entering a crowded highly competitive market. Also, Google has not done well when it made its own hardware such as the defunct Nexus Q media streaming media ball and expensive Chromebook Pixel laptop. Meanwhile, many smartphone owners are stuck with family plans and upgrade cycles they can't escape.
Some analysts noted that the pricing of the Moto X at $199 with contract was near-term positive for Apple and Samsung. The Moto X is not a big game changer noted Barclay's Anthony DiClemente.
"With Moto X, Motorola Mobility is inching closer to the seamless user interface (UI) that iPhone still holds the crown on in terms of responsiveness and fluid transitions," said David Hewitt at SapientNitro.
The Moto X will be coming to T-Mobile but the way and if it will financed is unclear with the T-Mobile uncarrier plans. A T-Mobile version of the Moto X will be available from Motorola, directly. T-Mobile is not stocking it in its stores initially but there may be an announcement later.
Since the Moto X has almost the same processor as the new line of Verizon Wireless' Droids, marketing can be confusing, noted Ina Fried at AllThingsD
Some previous leaks suggested, a cheap/lower-priced model around $300 like the Nexus 4, make be forthcoming but now with the high-end Nexus 4 specs. A less expensive Moto X model is in the works with the Moto X brand name reported CNET in an interview with Dennis Woodside who is aware of the need for low-cost, prepaid smartphones and emerging markets. Then, the Moto X would be competing with the frequently sold-out Nokia Lumia 521.
A question that few analysts answered about the sentient "always on" experience of the Moto X Google Now voice control, is "What is Google going to do with the more personal data it's collecting for AI (Artificial Intelligence) for contextual responses and sensors?"
A Moto X will know the times when you are Googling stopping for gas, when you are driving to Starbucks or McDonald's. Then,will it offer an ad for a discount at Jack in the Box or the Cofffee Bean & Tea Leaf?
Will it collect the data to know that you take photos at a fine restaurant and then send you ads to more restaurants like the one where you took a photo of the lobster bisque?
Say you lose your Moto X and you had precious notes about your latest proprietary information, when the robber in a tenor voice talks the Moto X will say back, "Hey you're not Fred, I'm not telling you where the last bank deposit was made?"