Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
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Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
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Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#2I don't understand, how is this different from Google acquiring and then selling off Motorola Mobility?
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#3I don't understand, how is this different from Google acquiring and then selling off Motorola Mobility?
I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#4I don't understand, how is this different from Google acquiring and then selling off Motorola Mobility?
The narrative is that they only wanted the patents (and the experimental division) of Motorola.
Although I suspect that Google's directionless approach does not help.
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#5I don't understand, how is this different from Google acquiring and then selling off Motorola Mobility?
I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.
Why was it designed that way? Can you elaborate?
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#6Apple comes across as people friendly, a hardware company who provides a tangible, usable set of products. Google comes across as what they are, an ad company with a semi-decent search engine and an OK web mail and docs platform. I stick with my i-devices and Fastmail.
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#7after being an iPhone user for 6 years and recently switching to android (first a pixel, then one plus) I can say with confidence Google's hardware approach sucks. Android can do a lot more than iOS but it does most of the simple things in a user unfriendly way
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.
Why was it designed that way? Can you elaborate?
I remember reading somewhere that they did not integrate to not alienate other phone manufacturers, they were trying to avoid making the manufacturers feel like second class citizens.
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.
Why was it designed that way? Can you elaborate?
Presumably to avoid any impression of special collaboration between Google and Motorola that would have spooked the large Android OEMs of the time - Samsung, HTC and LG.
Re: Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.
Why was it designed that way? Can you elaborate?
Simply put so that the oems like Samsung were not allienated into forking Android or going with another OS not that Samsung and Lg didn't try going with another OS.