Google buying Motorola Mobile

Google acknowledging that the vertical business model is better? Now Google's own devices will compete with those from OEM partners. Interesting.
 
RIM is what I would have bought if I was Google. Immediate access to BBM and BIS ... just what Android need.
 
"and CEO Sanjay Jha's less than subtle hints about going fishing for Android-related patent royalties"

Now the good guys can protect Android device makers from the twin evils Apple and Microsoft.
 
Jab said:
Now the good guys can protect Android device makers from the twin evils Apple and Microsoft.
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I just wonder how Samsung, HTC and LG will react having to compete with Google now. I know they said they're okay with it, but I cannot see that being the case in reality. Wouldn't be surprised if Samsung makes a stronger shift towards Microsoft now (until MS buys Nokia or RIM that is). Very interesting to see how this thing unfolds.
 
From BGR:

In a post penned by Larry Page on Google’s company blog, the CEO explains why Google decided to shell out $12.5 billion to purchase smartphone vendor Motorola Mobility. While Page had plenty to say about Motorola’s extensive history and its leading role in Android’s explosive growth, he also points to what many believe to be one of the leading factors behind the deal: patents. “We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android,” the CEO wrote on Google’s blog. “The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to ‘protect competition and innovation in the open source software community’ and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.”

Regarding where this deal might leave other big Android partners such as Samsung and HTC, Page was sure to indicate that Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not push them out of the space. “This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform,” Page noted in his post. “Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. Many hardware partners have contributed to Android’s success and we look forward to continuing to work with all of them to deliver outstanding user experiences.” Google is obviously looking to build a scenario where it can control the end-to-end Android user experience as a result of this acquisition, but it also appears that the company is looking to protect the Android ecosystem as a whole by using patents obtained through the deal to fight off assailants like Apple and Microsoft.
 
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BeVonk! said:
Google acknowledging that the vertical business model is better? Now Google's own devices will compete with those from OEM partners. Interesting.
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Nope, theyre buying Motorola for the patents.
 
ghoti said:
Nope, theyre buying Motorola for the patents.
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hang on there... This is google.

I agree they bought it for patents, but those 17 000 patents will soon not matter... I think google is going to use Motorola as a vendor to pump out hardware + software patents, which is great because I think we will see Motorola getting back to the innovative guys.

+1 to google.
 
Why can't companies in the East come up with an Operating System to compete with iOS, Android and WP? That is the big shake-up I'm waiting for. How long must the Samsungs, LG's and HTC's of this world produce hardware that goes with an US OS? Can't someone in China/Korea/Japan develop a better OS?
 
Can't Mark Shuttleworth and staff develop a mobile OS based on Linux (Ubuntu) to compete with the big boys? They should consider such a focus change in light of the shift to mobile computing.
 
BeVonk! said:
Why can't companies in the East come up with an Operating System to compete with iOS, Android and WP? That is the big shake-up I'm waiting for. How long must the Samsungs, LG's and HTC's of this world produce hardware that goes with an US OS? Can't someone in China/Korea/Japan develop a better OS?
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Because of a sad little fact that the US wont buy it. China has nor problem running something made in USA but the US have loads of issues running something made in China. There are plenty of OS's that was developed in the east but they stayed there, not because of quality its just that Americans dont trust it.

Even Nokia's Symbian OS that was made in Finland had loads of trouble trying to sell in the US.

Samsung had a flirtation with Bada, but the US did not buy it at all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada_(operating_system)

BeVonk! said:
Can't Mark Shuttleworth and staff develop a mobile OS based on Linux (Ubuntu) to compete with the big boys? They should consider such a focus change in light of the shift to mobile computing.
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See Meego
 
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