Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
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#2I think two of Google's major aims will be to improve competition among Android manufacturers and use the experience gained from building its own phones to improve Android for all of them.
That's not to say that Google won't make much money off the physical device, but I think Google's aim is to increase revenue from Android (ultimately adverts) by making the platform better.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#3Is it only me that think's this guy's a nutter that gets by by saying whatever Apple fans want to hear? Here's some of his startlingly wrong predictions about the smartphone market from last year:
http://www.asymco.com/2010/11/03/what-do-you-have-to-believe...
His key arguments where that:
* Android wouldn't grow faster than the average of RIM, Nokia, HP and Apple.
* Nokia wouldn't dump Symbian&Meego for someone else's OS.
* Android wouldn't do a great deal better than Windows Mobile
* Android vendors wouldn't be profitable
So not very good really, in fact a total blowout. Maybe he knows stuff about Apple, to be honest I think he's just like a sports fan during a season when his team is playing well. His elaborate theories of why they are succeeding don't seem to mesh with reality much, except in that Apple is doing very well, and I'm not sure he cares if they do or not.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#4Google could shut down Motorola Mobility's hardware business, keeping its patents.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#5Is it only me that think's this guy's a nutter that gets by by saying whatever Apple fans want to hear? Here's some of his startlingly wrong predictions about the smartphone market from last year: http://www.asymco.com/2010/11/03/what-do-you-have-to-believe... His key arguments where that: * Android wouldn't grow faster than the average of RIM, Nokia, HP and Apple. * Nokia wouldn't dump Symbian&Meego for someone else…
While I usually don't agree with the convoluted and twisted logic of Asymco, Gruber and Marco (they do get a lot of undeserved traction on HN thanks to its big section of Apple fans), I think this time he does have a point.
It will be a tightrope walk for Google about who and how to share the longterm plans of the OS with etc.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#6Google could shut down Motorola Mobility's hardware business, keeping its patents.
Are you serious?
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#7"Symbian was formed to be governed in a way very similar to the original Android via the Open Handset Alliance."
Riiiiight. I was at an OHA company during the early Android days post-Google. OHA was created by Google to make their subcontractors look like "partners" in Android development. There was no boss other than Google in this project.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#8Is it only me that think's this guy's a nutter that gets by by saying whatever Apple fans want to hear? Here's some of his startlingly wrong predictions about the smartphone market from last year: http://www.asymco.com/2010/11/03/what-do-you-have-to-believe... His key arguments where that: * Android wouldn't grow faster than the average of RIM, Nokia, HP and Apple. * Nokia wouldn't dump Symbian&Meego for someone else…
“Nutter”? Really? Being wrong doesn’t make anyone a “nutter”.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#9Is it only me that think's this guy's a nutter that gets by by saying whatever Apple fans want to hear? Here's some of his startlingly wrong predictions about the smartphone market from last year: http://www.asymco.com/2010/11/03/what-do-you-have-to-believe... His key arguments where that: * Android wouldn't grow faster than the average of RIM, Nokia, HP and Apple. * Nokia wouldn't dump Symbian&Meego for someone else…
Besides android vendors aren't really profitable by big margins. Motorola in fact has continued losing money for past few years even after introducing android.
Re: Google's Latest Acquisition: The perils of licensing to your competitors
#10Is it only me that think's this guy's a nutter that gets by by saying whatever Apple fans want to hear? Here's some of his startlingly wrong predictions about the smartphone market from last year: http://www.asymco.com/2010/11/03/what-do-you-have-to-believe... His key arguments where that: * Android wouldn't grow faster than the average of RIM, Nokia, HP and Apple. * Nokia wouldn't dump Symbian&Meego for someone else…
Besides android vendors aren't really profitable by big margins. Motorola in fact has continued losing money for past few years even after introducing android.
>HTC announced that its first quarter 2011 profits were up by a staggering 191 per cent to $511 million from the same time last year. Revenue figures were not too shabby either, showing 174 per cent growth, meaning that profit growth outstripped revenue growth, something that is particularly desirable on any balance sheet.
Do you get your news from Apple centered sites and blogs and the comments there? There seems to be an element of cognitive dissonance(or perhaps PR rhetoric?). If this was MS, there would be shouts of paid shills, but I am not going there.
Edit: Samsung made a profit of 1.5 billion dollars off their phones just last quarter.