In a session at MWC 2014, three Motorola exec including senior vice president of Software Engineering Steve Horowitz, senior vice president of Supply Chain and Operations Mark Randall and product manager Rick Austenwell revealed that Google did not actually have any influence on Motorola products since the Search giant acquired the company, V3 reports. According to them, Google "rarely got involved with its product development or innovation efforts," further reinforcing the idea that Google didn't give Motorola special preference.
Motorola says Google didn’t have any influence on Moto X or G