Comments on: Exclusive: Guess who else wanted to buy Motorola? http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/ Sun, 19 May 2013 22:18:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Malcolm McLean http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-668059 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:54:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-668059 Oh I agree – manufacturing is a while different kettle of fish than software!

Headache is too gentle a word for it – a splitting migraine more likely!

]]> By: patent litigation http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-649865 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:01:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-649865 Although its entry into the patent-war big leagues didn’t start out very smoothly, perhaps Google is better off now with the IBM and Motorola portfolios than with the Nortel patents. It will certainly have more patents at its disposal now than if it had bid higher than Pi at the Nortel auction.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/poltorak-says-nortel-auction-may-spark-patent-wars/2011/06/27/AGWzLWnH_video.html

]]> By: Major Plonquer http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648872 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:05:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648872 Microsoft won’t buy anyone. At least Ballmer is smart enough not to compete with his own customers.

]]> By: Major Plonquer http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648870 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:00:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648870 Two turkeys do not an eagle make.

]]> By: Kevin Lynch http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648384 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:43:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648384 Google in their press release state quite clearly that Motorola Mobility will be run as a separate company and Android will continue to be developed as it is now. Meaning it will remain an open platform available to all handset makers.

If anything I think the likes of HTC and Samsung will be quite happy about this deal. It means Google have taken a huge step towards being able to help them fend off malicious patent attacks from Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. So I just can’t see how the author comes to the conclusion this is an opportunity for Microsoft to recruit “disillusioned” hand set makers. Which hand set makers are “disillusioned” exactly?

The OEMs currently pumping out Android handsets can’t do it fast enough. Every other month their are several new models being hyped up as the latest and greatest. Android owns the mobile market right now and it’s getting bigger all the time. Even RIM who have their own OS have incorporated Android application compatibility into their tablet.

]]> By: everseen http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648098 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:42:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648098 Why is no one mentioning Motorola’s presence in people’s living rooms and a potential path for Google to take over the homes with converged software and services?

]]> By: Stanley http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648096 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:35:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648096 Sure, apple knows that “apphole fanboys” will pay premium price to pick up whatever shit they dump.

]]> By: Clay http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648056 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:08:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648056 This was a no-brainer for the GOOG. They now have hardware control in many markets, namely the rapidly growing mobile space. Now, they will make an exclusive version of their own phone (like the iPhone) and increase competition across the ecosystem. I’m not a Google supporter but I have great respect for their urgency with this move.

]]> By: Gerhard Mack http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648012 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:23:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648012 1 This doesn’t directly affect Google since it’s the handset manufactuers.
2 “Most Android Manufacturers” does not mean most Android handsets. The largest Android handset and tablet manufacturers are GPL compliant. The ones that are non compliant are the small Chinese shops
3. To see the effect this will have we only have to look at cases where this has happened before. The Lawyers for the Open Source crowd want compliance more than anything else and in the past have given companies plenty of time to correct the problem and settle. In some cases they have been forced to prevent manufacturers from distributing GPL code but that’s been rare.

]]> By: Someone http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/#comment-648005 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:35:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=392911#comment-648005 The Samsung Galaxy S II has only started selling in the US. So what you’re saying is that the cumulative total of sales worldwide compared to the Galaxy S II’s non-North American sales is greater — when US consumers have one of the largest purchasers of Android handsets.

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