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Re:Lenovo will adopt the ‘Moto’ label for its smartphones by Navarr on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:33PM (#12922384)
I think they're made by HTC in the same way Apple's phones are made by Foxconn, which is the reason I used the "made by" in quotes.

As I think it's disingenuous to consider the Pixel another company's phone (like the Nexus line was)

Re:Lenovo will adopt the ‘Moto’ label for its smartphones by Fej on Friday November 11, 2016 @09:36AM (#12930937)
The current suspicion is that the phone was almost entirely designed by HTC.

It appears that it was a phone that HTC had in the works, but then changed to the Pixel when Google rang.