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Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
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#372A companies identity is a peculiar thing. Remember not so long ago it was rumored that Microsoft was going to buy Nokia? People seemed to out of hand reject this as a bad move. Yet Google comes along (with arguably the same ambitions) and buys Motorola (makers of the 68000 probably the greatest chip ever created), and everyone seems to think it's a pretty good idea.
Re: Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
#373A companies identity is a peculiar thing. Remember not so long ago it was rumored that Microsoft was going to buy Nokia? People seemed to out of hand reject this as a bad move. Yet Google comes along (with arguably the same ambitions) and buys Motorola (makers of the 68000 probably the greatest chip ever created), and everyone seems to think it's a pretty good idea.
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#374if search engine starts to produce self-moving cars and mobile phones its time to worry how fair and balanced their search results will soon be,
search engine as a competitive advantage for a phone manufacturer ))
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#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but Larry said in the call that Moto will have to bid to become the halo device each year on an equal footing
"My son is going to have to bid to get the contract to build the new city building, just like anybody else. He will be on equal footing." I won't believe it until I see a regular pattern of Moto not getting picked. That goes against too much human nature.
"My son is going to have to bid to get the contract to build the new city building, just like anybody else. He will be on equal footing."
I won't believe it until I see a regular pattern of Moto not getting picked. That goes against too much human nature.
Equal footing in the bidding process doesn't mean that on average everyone gets an equal split. If Moto or any other company deserve to win the bid they should win regardless of how many times they've won it before.
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#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
GOOG is a s/w company and not a manufacturer. The ability to integrate both sides of such different firms is very difficult. This puts both points b), c) and e) off the table. Point f)? I'm not sure, but I really hope that they can do something while looking at exactly how it will play out on a phone. They did try this with the Nexus though, and that was not something which worked out perfectly imho. M&A's have a ten…
>GOOG is a s/w company and not a manufacturer. Fanboys used to say the same thing about MS when they were working on the first Xbox, and they came out looking pretty silly for it. The first one was a bit clunky, but the second one, especially with Kinect, is gangbusters. Integrating Motorola won't be as big a problem as you make it out for a company as smart and well funded Google.
> "Fanboys used to say the same thing about MS when they were working on the first Xbox"
Microsoft already had a world-class design and manufacturing group at that point, making critically acclaimed peripherals. And the missing piece, making a glorified PC, was not nearly as cut-throat a business as making a phone. They didn't have to push the envelope and they didn't even try.
Google, having far less experience with consumer hardware, would have a far more difficult time making an already good hardware company better.
And, in any case, all indications are that they wanted a patent pool and are going to essentially leave Motorola Mobility alone for the near term. I'd be surprised if they even exerted pressure to bin or integrate MotoBlur extensions in the next couple years.
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#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
I may be mistaken, but I believe (and you can check if you want) the last commit on that tree happened 40 hours ago.
You're not mistaken about the commits, but you're mistaken about what it means. That command will clone the 2.3 branch, aka Gingerbread. Honeycomb has been shipping on devices for months now, and Ice Cream is the current development branch. Even if you want to claim that I shouldn't be able to see the current work in progress in an "open" project, which is debatable, I should at least be able to get the code for the…
I am quite sure all the GPL parts of Gingerbread are available. I am also sure Google is not withholding parts of Gingerbread for no reason. I have no knowledge about their reasons to do so, but, considering many if not all 3.x tablets run on Nvidia chips, I'd bet this has some relationship to Nvidia's historic reluctance in supporting open-source. I am also quite sure Google is working on that as it's not in their best interest to alienate the open-source developer community.
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#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure they're part of Motorola Mobility...
Ahh you're right, classic me, I just parsed the headline and assumed it was the whole company, not just the mobile division.
No worries - I did the same thing :) I just had the benefit of already having digested a first wave of news when I finally came to the comments here.
Re: Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not mistaken about the commits, but you're mistaken about what it means. That command will clone the 2.3 branch, aka Gingerbread. Honeycomb has been shipping on devices for months now, and Ice Cream is the current development branch. Even if you want to claim that I shouldn't be able to see the current work in progress in an "open" project, which is debatable, I should at least be able to get the code for the…
I am quite sure all the GPL parts of Gingerbread are available. I am also sure Google is not withholding parts of Gingerbread for no reason. I have no knowledge about their reasons to do so, but, considering many if not all 3.x tablets run on Nvidia chips, I'd bet this has some relationship to Nvidia's historic reluctance in supporting open-source. I am also quite sure Google is working on that as it's not in their b…
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Re: Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not mistaken about the commits, but you're mistaken about what it means. That command will clone the 2.3 branch, aka Gingerbread. Honeycomb has been shipping on devices for months now, and Ice Cream is the current development branch. Even if you want to claim that I shouldn't be able to see the current work in progress in an "open" project, which is debatable, I should at least be able to get the code for the…
I am quite sure all the GPL parts of Gingerbread are available. I am also sure Google is not withholding parts of Gingerbread for no reason. I have no knowledge about their reasons to do so, but, considering many if not all 3.x tablets run on Nvidia chips, I'd bet this has some relationship to Nvidia's historic reluctance in supporting open-source. I am also quite sure Google is working on that as it's not in their b…
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