Boot up: Google buys Motorola – all the links you need, and more

Motorola has tried to build quality managemtn ever before in its production processes. Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP

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"As opposed to being protected, as MMIS patents seems to be too weak, these other Android device makers will be second-class citizens. Google has set its priority. I said before: Don't overestimate the patent part of the deal. It's all about Google maximize its control over the Android reasons and with the effects I roughly described herein, and which I will comment on the closer will forward. "

"It is not to say it was not a bold, brash Move, or even say it was not the right Move for Google and Android as a platform. But it is all relative to position Google was in--and that position was a weak, and to pretend otherwise is to deny the obvious. And don't forget that it is leaving Google in a weak situation with the two leading Android handset makers, Samsung, HTC. I think Apple and Microsoft will probably feel pretty good, package solutions about have forced Google to spending $ 12.5 billion Motorola--a handset maker with rapidly declining sales, no recent profits and faulty management. "

"According to Infonetics, Motorola mobility was the leader in set-top box revenues last year, and also was tops in hybrid IP/QAM set-top boxes--, the boxes used by operators like Verizon that combine broadcast TELEVISION and over the top programs. By leveraging Motorola's position with the air carriers, Google can better to solidify its offer to extend the Google TV and Android in the living room. "

"Google Inc. agreed to pay Motorola mobility Holdings Inc. $ 2.5 billion, if it fails to close the purchase of mobile phone maker, said a person with knowledge of the situation, a fee of more than six times the typical amount."

"Our sources say that Motorola was in acquisition talks with several parties, including the Microsoft era. Microsoft was interested in acquiring Motorola's patent portfolio, which would have made it to the torpedo Android yet. The ability to deal brought Google to table debate results in blockbuster sale. "

Reading between the lines in Microsoft's edits: Linux is no longer a desktop threat; Apple and Google is "mostly" his main rivals; Mobile issues; Online battle now is inside the browser; and security is in, innovation is out. Worth reading in full.

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