I'm not a huge fan of Android, but I had hoped that Google would use Motorola to take a holistic approach to security similar to what Apple can do. This would have been a serious pain for both the NSA and the PLA, but instead they are selling the whole business to the PLA.
Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
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Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#32Makes me wonder how this affects their recent patent pact with Samsung -- now that they have Samsung as a form of support, they no longer need Motorola Mobility?
Perhaps a patent pact with Motorola Mobility would've been better than buying them outright?
Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Almost certainly. Still, surely the patents aren't worth $9B are they?
The article suggests that 10,000 patents are part of the deal. I'm not sure if that's the same number as were originally purchased, but I have to think it's the lion's share of them.
I see 'certain patents'. I don't see a reason to read a number out of that.
Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#34Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made. That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the articl…
> It's also a big statement on Google's ability to succeed in the hardware market, where they've never seemed to be able to gain real success despite their attempts with notebooks and phones. And Google TV. Let's not forget that huge failure. "By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded in it." -Eric Schmidt
It makes me wonder how this will affect Google management's willingness to make additional attempts in hardware. For example, will they still push Google Glass? As you suggest, Google TV? Further out, they seem to be pursuing things like autonomous vehicles -- perhaps this could motivate them to limit their ambitions to the software/AI aspects of it.
Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#35Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#36Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made. That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the articl…
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Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#37Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made. That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the articl…
Wasn't there some story about how Motorola represented billions of dollars tax savings from deferred tax credits? Is it potentially possible to sell the rest of the business while keeping those?
Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#38Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made. That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the articl…
I would wager that it means a ton of these patents arent useful anymore.. the stuff coming out of google X will pretty much make these old patents kinda uselesss.
Even the very nature of the cell phone is rapidly changing and Google Glass is a useless halfstep with contacts coming right around the corner which will be the real hardware killer.
Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#39Huge announcement if true, and if this accounts for the entirety of the Motorola purchase that Google made. That means that in less than two years, Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola. At the time, the high price paid was excused for the patents, because the business itself did not generate nearly enough earnings to justify the price. Now, if it is true that the patents are part of the deal (the articl…
> It's also a big statement on Google's ability to succeed in the hardware market, where they've never seemed to be able to gain real success despite their attempts with notebooks and phones. And Google TV. Let's not forget that huge failure. "By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded in it." -Eric Schmidt
A year off and the name is different, but Chromecast has redefined the way I think about 'Smart TVs' and HTPCs.
Google's long game still looks good in this area, IMO.
Re: Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division
#40Smart move from Google, they remove the possibility of being suspected of favoritism. And I suppose they keep the patents, which is what they were really interested in all along.
I don't know how anyone can see selling off a company for $9.5 billion less than you paid for it two years ago as a "smart move". It is prudent to get rid of Motorola now before it eats up even more cash, but the smart thing would have been to never buy the company in the first place.