I'm looking forward to a Motorola phone with an SD card slot. Maybe without Google pushing cloud storage we can finally store our own files.
Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
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Re: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
#82This comment on the post summarizes well >> Nicolas Charbonnier Moto total cost $12.5B to Goog in 2011: - $3.2B Moto's 2011 cash - $2.4B Moto's 2011 deferred tax assets - $2.35B Moto's Set-top-box business sold in 2012 - $75M Moto's factories business sold in 2013 (incl 7K factory employees) - $2.91B Moto's Mobility business sold in 2014 Thus Moto's remaining assets including patents, buildings (in Chicago and elsewh…
just for reference here's the original link to this breakdown.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106075758531242552855/posts/JrPi...
Re: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
#83So let's get this straight: -Moto made decentish Android phones in China. -Moto is bought by Google. Transforms into arguably the best high end phone mfgr in the world, with handsets assembled in USA. Moto is forging ahead with some truly innovative features on their phones, whilst maintaining the core Google experience. They are the only mfgr to do this. -Moto is bought by a Chinese company. Sooooo... what's next? I…
>I hope than Lenovo can keep the most exciting mfgr going the right direction
Look at Thinkpad.
Re: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
#84Re: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Microsoft’s fixation [...] ultimately made them miss the internet/advertising and the mobile markets Actually, MS was quite a pioneer in the mobile space. Their mistakes were in execution (they went after pricy enterprise tools like PDAs rather than consumer-grade phones) and timing (technology simply wasn't ready -- they made a big push on early tablets before capacitive touchscreens changed the whole landscape). G…
> technology simply wasn't ready no, Windows Mobile was a horrible os, that's all.They tried to port a desktop ui to mobile,it sucked , then they tried to port a mobile ui to desktop(metro), it still sucked. The problem is Microsoft itself,nothing else.
>Windows Mobile was a horrible os
The fact that you're referring to it by its late name, rather than the early ones (WinCE / PocketPC) I think is indicative of your perspective. Early WinCE competed with Palm and (what would have become) Symbian; because of incredibly low-res screens, people were supposed to use stylus pens. There was little research on usability of mobile devices to build on. Devices were terribly underpowered, memory was much more expensive.
Believe me, for the times, a (colorscreen!) PocketPC device was not as terrible as you think, considering overall constraints. This was almost a decade before iOS.
Re: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
#86Are you freaking kidding me? Why the hell would Google sell one of Americas most trusted electronics brands over to the Chinese. It doesn't make any sense. Lenovo is one of the Chinese governments puppet companies (along with Huawei and ZTE) that uses it's products to spy on everyone it caters to. Anything Cyber related coming from China should be not be purchased, not because it's "Un-American", or "we are losing jobs overseas", but because it is a serious breach of privacy. Way to go Google, you have just helped the Chinese perpetuate ways to commit espionage against the Western world. "Do no evil" huh?