Comments on: Google to buy Motorola for $12.5 billion

By: J.Stewart

J.Stewart — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:58:08 +0000

Motorola’s patent portfolio wasn’t enough to stop Apple suing, or Microsoft strong-arming it to take a Windows Phone license.

Windows Phone sales have, after a year on sale, been abysmal. After the Google-Motorola deal, Windows Phone sales will still be abysmal – a total failure.

With Google + Moto, and Nokia jumping into bed with Microsoft, the winner may be MeeGo.

By: Adam Haworth

Adam Haworth — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:07:15 +0000

Good news and hopefully they will do big things with it, really look forward to seeing where they take Motorola.

By: Katie @ Women Magazine

Katie @ Women Magazine — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:29:25 +0000

Now, this is where i fail to understand business. What is common in Google and Motorola? How come all of a sudden Google is so interested in Motorola and spending 12 billion.

By: Massimo Brazil

Massimo Brazil — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:50:39 +0000

Hey, Why is this any different than yesterday. Google was selling handsets, someone else made it for them (Was it HTC?) now they have the burden of having to compete. What I read between the lines is fear of competing, well not to worry, Samsung, HTC, LG and alike are sharks… This is a welcome news for Motorola share holders who were looking at the prospect of the company going out of business a couple of years back.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS.

By: Jack C

Jack C — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:07:58 +0000

This is awesome news, for several reasons. Consumer and manufacturer confidence through major IP acquisition; an injection of innovation to mobile device manufacturing; the potential for genuine choice when it comes device vs. carrier; and so on.

By: Sachendra Yadav

Sachendra Yadav — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:15:14 +0000

So then, we have 3 major software platforms in mobile… Apple, Android and Windows Phone… and each one of them now makes their own hardware… Apple itself, Microsoft with Nokia and Google with Motorola… wonder how the other OEMs and ODMs will handle this

By: Tyler Rey

Tyler Rey — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:43:25 +0000

Ryan, patents aside, perhaps Google has felt restricted in the design of the Nexus line so far (HTC for Nexus One, Samsung for Nexus S)? Its now a slam dunk that the next iteration of Nexus will come from Motorola. Even so, it still might not work out to be as polished as Apple because, as Steve Jobs has noted in his recent keynotes, Apple’s philosophy is to intersect science and technology with the liberal arts (putting Google engineers in the same room as Motorola engineers does not necessarily get you the requisite *art* part of the equation)!

By: Ryan Kim

Ryan Kim — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:59:15 +0000

Yeah, it seems like Google has impressed upon them that this is about bulking up on patents and that MMI will be run separately. So they will presumably get more in broad patent protection and less in the way of direct competition. That may work initially, but the promise here is in Google building more integrated products that are more like Apple’s, a great blend of hardware and software. When that starts to come together, Android manufacturers may not be as happy.

By: Hiroaki Nagai

Hiroaki Nagai — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:29:20 +0000

OracleのSun買収以上に驚きだ！

By: Saurabh Kaushik

Saurabh Kaushik — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:10:40 +0000

An necessary move to avoid fragmentation of Android platform also to bring the competition to Apple and MS doors.