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Title: Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
Source: WSJ
URL Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100 ... html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
Published: Aug 15, 2011
Author: WSJ
Post Date: 2011-08-15 09:37:57 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 1089
Comments: 2

Google Inc. agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for about $12.5 billion in cash, a deal that spells the end of independence for a venerable American company and reshapes the booming market for smartphones as computing shifts from the desktop to mobile devices.

The deal gives Google—which has spurred widespread adoption of its Android mobile operating system by licensing it freely to mobile-phone makers —its own in-house hardware operation, potentially enabling it to challenge rival Apple Inc. on better terms, but it also raises questions for partners like HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. with which Google will now compete.

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#1. To: go65 (#0)

Is this like AOL buying Time Warner? I don't think it is but we now have a cyber entity buying an entity that actually produces hard products.

With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-08-15   9:46:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: go65 (#0) (Edited)

I'm sitting at HTC in Taipei right now, and I think this is a huge mistake.

Apple is the only company that makes iPhones, RIM is the only company that makes Blackberrys and HP is only company that makes Palm WebOS phones.

Android has been phenomenally successful because Google doesn't complete in the handset market with other vendors. If Google starts making their own handsets, HTC, Samung, LG, Sony Erickson, and other companies that are currently betting the farm on Android could be driven into Microsoft's arms because Microsoft will be the only mobile platform vendor left that is not trying to compete with them with their own handsets.

Nokia (which is still the #1 Smartphone vendor in Europe) has already decided to downplay their proprietary platform (Symbian) and focus on Windows Phone. They are going to use Windows Phone to reenter the U.S. Smartphone market as well.

I can easily see some of the other vendors put more emphasis on Windows Phone if Google goes through with this.


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jwpegler  posted on  2011-08-16   2:57:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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