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Google is buying Motorola's mobile division
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08-15-2011, 08:07 PM | #2 |
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Yep. Been watching all the opinion pieces on this today. Huge play by Google.
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08-15-2011, 08:14 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, I was kind of surprised that it hadn't already been posted. Suddenly, Google can completely control the Android experience on a gigantic chunk of the world's smartphones. It'll be interesting to see where they end up going with it.
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08-15-2011, 08:31 PM | #4 |
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Biggest thing I see is threat of Google fighting back with patent lawsuits of its own. That's a mighty big stick they just picked up. Motorola is suing Apple already over some UDMA patents.
Adding Motorola's set-top box to GoogleTV gives them a much more inline competitor to AppleTV as well. Next few years should be mighty interesting. EDIT: To be honest, I actually hope the patent lawsuits this year and next become such a huge ****ing mess that it forces reform. Suing based on the "shape" of a device is ****ing reeruned, as are software patents beyond 2 or 3 years.
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In effect it'll go back to the old rules, I bring my patents to the table, you bring your patents to the table. Whoever's stack is smaller get's to add cash. That's how the system generally works.
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Microsoft n Apple are already suing Motorola.
Interesting move and smart move by Google. Smartphones & tabs are the future. I expect updates on Motorola in the the future to be first(Android). Now when is Microsoft going to buy Nokia and complete that deal? |
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Yeah, I have three GED's from Motorola, two still getting updates. The Xoom seem rather behind with updates, so I'm hoping they end up getting them faster. And no doubt this was to stay even with HTC!
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08-15-2011, 08:26 PM | #8 |
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Hehehe, more billionaires battling billionaires. What a world we live in.
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And how is this different from the way the world has been running the past 7000 years?
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08-15-2011, 11:00 PM | #10 |
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Do you think this has anything to do with HTC buying out beats by Dre the other day?
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Patent grab. That's all they want. They already have enough manufacturers churning out devices for them, and they never even gave Motorola a leg up and kept that division isolated from the android team, so it didn't ruffle any other maker's feathers.
Now they have a patent sharing agreement with Samsung, and there's actually talk they will get preferred access to the sdk and apis that may mean they can bake extra features in and really cut down on a lot of the bloat of having to skin a good portion of things on top through the launcher.
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