Google to acquire Motorola Mobile ...

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For the huge amount of mobile tech patents Motorola owns perhaps?

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If I'm wrong then correct, Moto have over 17 000 patents and they have patent on a mobile phone :-)

skypjack

That's right and it's in support of my thesis. Google has is own mobile division, now. That's enough. How can people say that relationships will not be broken?
Android do not needs patents owned by Motorola, or better it needs patents owned by all his related vendors. So, who needs patents owned by weaker partner? Google.

skypjack

A question of all: you'd be quiet on the issue Android, and as regards the partnership with Google if you were at the head of Samsung or HTC? I do not believe, I'm sorry.

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Google needs those patents to fend off the patent attack that has been lunched at Android by M$ and Apple. I'd say that that's the prime reason behind buying Moto, not the need to become a device manufacturer. And as much as I'd like all other Android manufacturers to switch to or at least take up MeeGo just because Google will now own a manufacturing division. I find it very unlikely at best.

skypjack

Samsung needs to defend himself by Apple (Germany market docet) and Google has to defend Android by supposed GPL violations and Oracle attacks. Google offers a linux-based system and a java-based framework, mobile tech patents are not directly involved here. Looking at this panorama, Motorola had nothing to offer...

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You do not need patents relevant to the ones you are alleged to be in violation of, you need patents that the other parties might be in violation of (patents are like nukes here, you need them to scare of attackers and hope that you will not have to us them).

skypjack

So you are looking at this acquisition as a Google chance to acquire arms potentially useful to attack Microsoft or Apple (of course, also to use them as a a scarecrow)?
This is not what I saw, I'm sorry. :-)

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It's only my HO, no need to be sorry everyone has the right to have his own opinion and I'd love to be wrong on this one :)

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Third party manufacturers like HTC need not be in trouble by this acquisition. It's pretty much the same situation as with Nokia/Symbian and the other vendors. And that worked pretty well.

The pure reason - IMHO - behind this deal is to acquire a patent portfolio in order to strengthen Google's own position, especially against Apple and Microsoft.

Added to that, it's not very unlikely that Google will sell the actual factories to someone else. They will hold the patents and develop the devices, but have some third party contract manufacturers actually building the next billion devices. Just like Apple does - not without success.