Google buys Motorola Mobility

ssk_the_gr8

ssk_the_gr8

Make Way the LORD is Here
It changes the mobile market completely.just think.

it's now Nokia + WP7 vs Motorola + Android vs Apple + iOS


GOOGLE WILL BUY Motorola's handset business for $12.5bn, the two companies have announced.

The pair have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion.

Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open, the two companies insisted, adding that Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

In 2007, Motorola was a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance that worked to make Android an open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.

Meanwhile, in 2008, Motorola made Android its sole operating system across all of its smartphone devices. Google said on its blog today, "Motorola's total commitment to Android in mobile devices is one of many reasons that there is a natural fit between our two companies."
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Google buys motorola mobility for $12.5bn- The Inquirer
 
Liverpool_fan

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
Won't change much anything IMO. Android is still open source and can be easily deployed by any handset manufactureres.

Android is still open but now it will definitely favour Moto.
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Dude that will be suicide.
 
MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham

AFK
Android does not change one bit. But now we know google will use this newly bought asset to launch lots of googleware - hardware powered by the internet and google ;)
 
coderunknown

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
12.5 B$ :shock: thats a whole lot of cash.

this is definitely a good move. now Google can bring out their own mobiles & tablets. also no more "when will my mobile get Android ***?" questions. finally expecting timely updates.
 
Liverpool_fan

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
Official Google Blog: Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.
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This makes a lot of sense.
 
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vaithy

In the zone
What everybody missing is, so far in the Android World WAR-AKA WW-III, Google &its allies are so much bruised by legal woes.. But Motorola has different story to tell.. They actually invented the Mobile phones and its design, has first to have the load of patent wireless technologies, on which google is weak..
When google lost the Nortel bid to Apple consortium, everybody thought that Google was idiot, not offering enough bid money...But Nortel was actually a 'shell' company and only assets everybody think is its patents poilo in wireless.. at that same time Goolgle has negotiated the deal with Motorola..With nortel it don't get anything other than its 'shell' patents. but with Motorola it has its MobileHardware business, Patents polio, as well as its customers...so this deal is Win- Win situation for Google and motorola..
 
lywyre

lywyre

Cyborg Agent
Well. That is a bouquet of 17,000+ of mobile related patents. Apple is certainly going to sweat.

We should all remember that Motorola was a pioneer of Cellular Technology and holds a lot of patents related to the technology. These patents are more important than say, the placement of a button or the aspect ratio of the screen or some cosmetic ideas like the ones Apple sues other manufacturers for.

This is a buyout and not a merger, so we will still be buying Motorola mobiles and not Google mobiles, but Android without MotoBlur. Plain Android, sweet :). Droid X2 with Icecream - Yummy.

Apple was all out to destory Android, and we can't say Microsoft was not there too. Now HTC, Samsung, LG and the lot have a pretty solid backing from Google. Google has already stated that patent lawsuit is killing evolution. So, from that standpoint, Google may not sue Apple or MS (Nokia), but they are certain to use it (the patent lot) as a defence.
 
lywyre

lywyre

Cyborg Agent
Yes that is true.

Larry has also said that Motorola will still have to do the same work as other manufacturers to bid for Nexus. So the next Nexus can still be anyone LG, Samsung, HTC or Motorola or whoever.
 
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noob

Cyborg Agent
Android is still open but now it will definitely favour Moto.
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totally wrong view. look at it this way.

Google got 16K+ patents and 6500+ pending approval. this will slow down MS and Apple a lot who want Android to die.

Quotes from Android partners

“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”
– J.K. Shin
President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division
“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Bert Nordberg
President & CEO, Sony Ericsson
“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.”
– Peter Chou
CEO, HTC Corp.
“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D
President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company
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ssk_the_gr8

ssk_the_gr8

Make Way the LORD is Here
lywyre said:
Yes that is true.

Larry has also said that Motorola will still have to do the same work as other manufacturers to bid for Nexus. So the next Nexus can still be anyone LG, Samsung, HTC or Motorola or whoever.
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if it is so then it's even better for the android world.
 
baccilus

baccilus

Cyborg Agent
Some believe that ultimately android will become closed source. This might be a step in that direction.
 
Liverpool_fan

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
baccilus said:
Some believe that ultimately android will become closed source. This might be a step in that direction.
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Wait..Unless they move to a *BSD how the hell they will be closed source? The Android kernel is still in actuality Linux, even though it's a fork and will be still subjected to the GPL 2 restrictions in it. No way they can close source it. Those "Some People" saying that are talking crap and spreading FUD.
Of course quite a few components of Android is closed source and remain so. At worst they can make all the userspace tools, etc. as closed source as in WebOS but no way they can be completely proprietary either, not legally at least.
Secondly the Android ecosystem benefits tremendously on the open source licenses, it will be a suicide to close everything (as in moving in WebOS way).
 
azzu

azzu

AJJU
Still in shock , one hell of a news..
dunno abt the android and patenting stuff..
but hoping now that Motorola could really release some cool phones with change in management (like defy ,rokr , e8 etc...)
 
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suyash_123

Techno Freak
good move by google....
Atleast he can come out of some Patent related issues in mobile and Android decision by this!!

But still i think it must have brought java earlier (Oracle is Ruining the java) or else Buy oracle!!!
 
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