Comments on: Google’s Motorola buy won’t give it what Apple has

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:26:00 +0000

As long as Apple makes crazy profits in this market, they’re going to make iPhones, whether it is to “a nice market of fanbois” or not.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:24:25 +0000

As long as Apple makes the majority of profits in the mobile phone industry, there’s going to be iPhones, even if they are sold to “a niche market of Apple fanbois”.

see – http://gigaom.com/apple/iphone-snags-two-thirds-of-mobile-industry-profits/

By: Subhasish Ghosh

Subhasish Ghosh — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:35:55 +0000

Completely agree with the points mentioned therein. purchasing a new company or acquisition of a new product line necessarily doesn’t mean – making progress. Tactially & strategically. apple is not only extremely well placed strategically with a seamless integration and experience that it provides to its customers with iphone/ipad2/iOS and so on; not sure google has that strategic insight and depth as well. not sure how google+ would pan out, but hope they dont flop like buzz and wave. :)

Subhasish
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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:28:52 +0000

Device agnosticism is a big reason why Android has beaten the iPhone, as many, many more people are choosing Android over iPhone. There’s just more choices with Android. Apple doing both sides of the software/hardware coin was a reason it lost in computers to Windows and it’s now also a big reason why it lost to Android. Unlike the Apple experience which is dictated by Steve Jobs, there’s just more choices with Android. The “perfect” Android experience is up to the individual consumer, and the consumer has many, many choices with Android. Apple’s mobile devices might still be around in the future, catering to a niche market of Apple fanbois. Macs are still around today, used by the few Apple fanbois.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:40:10 +0000

Let’s not overstate the value of Moto’s patent portofolio. It hasn’t discouraged both Apple and Microsoft from filing lawsuits against moto and hasn’t been able to effectively defend themselves using their so called “deep” portfolio.

Kind of calls into question the quality of that portfolio.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/

By: Aviral Mittal

Aviral Mittal — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:00:25 +0000

Icon specific patents you say? I think you lack imagination to say this. Microsoft’s mobile OS looks pretty different. Android looks like a cheap copy and Apple has every right to protect their IP for which they spent years making and testing it.

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By: Hm

Hm — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:21:26 +0000

As others have already said, correctly, this acquisition was all about the patents and IP of Motorola and pretty much zero to do with its hardware or physical assets. For that reason, I fear for the future of Motorola employees, who may very soon be out of a job, when Google realise just what they’ve got themselves in to and scramble to clean it up.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:05:22 +0000

Actually, Motorola doesn’t have any valuable patents that are going to help Google. This article may be more right than you think. Google is going all wrong.

By: TamilProdigy

TamilProdigy — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:58:44 +0000

Darrell, if I didn’t know better, I would mistake you for an iPhone lover. As WillKill07 pointed out, it’s all about the IP. Other than touch and some ridiculous icon specific patents (I can’t believe Apple was awarded these to begin with!), IP for anything that is fundamental for a wireless device is owned by Motorola and now with this purchase, Google gets access to that patent portfolio, which means leverage for anyone building on Android going forward (no more bullying of HTC or Samsung by Apple).