But Motorola may not be able to create a "Galaxy" of their own though. One of the reason Samsung is so successful is because they run a huge marketing/manufacturing operation that caters toward the entire world. The brand image they've created is quite successful, probably 2nd only to Apple. Motorola can create hardware that's just as powerful but so did HTC, LG, etc and none of them were able to touch Samsung's dominance. These days Google may not have a lot of leverage because many consumers (especially in Asia) just want a Galaxy phone, they don't care about or even know about Android/Google's role in it.
For example in China, Android handsets are very successful, but Google doesn't really benefit from that because most Google services are banned from within China and many manufacturers just roll their own skin/apps anyway.
Google now realises that once the rat has been consumed, the snake will start looking for other things to eat.
Google is now afraid of the snake. They are now on the look out for snake-eating gorillas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother).