Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

[rumblee1]

Wonder if they'll change the name of the combined company to either motoroogle, or googleola.

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[GrillMouster]

Google could certainly keep its Android and Motorola Mobility divisions separate. I remember when they acquired Picnik, a partner of Flickr/Yahoo. To this day Flickr still partners with Flickr even though Google has its competitor to Flickr and Google is a competitor of Yahoo. It can be done.

I hope Google continues to rotate through the other manufacturers for development of its Nexus devices.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Yeah, sorry to rain on the parade, but this is NOT good for competition. Not good at all. Moto makes good devices, yes, but so does Samsung and HTC, and now Google has a vested interest in making the Android platform completely incompatible with HTC and Samsung, or at least make those 2 companies jump through multiple hoops to make their devices run Android flawlessly.

Moto is good for now, but when Google starts designing Android to run exclusively on Moto with no regard to competition cause they can, will you still be signing the same tune?

+100 this. This is very bad news for open source android. Googlemoto will lock down the OS even more if not take future versions off the market. Only Moto will get the good new versions of the android code and it will be severely locked down. Everybody that has this image that Google does no wrong needs to pull there heads out of there backsides. Google is out to make money eliminating the competition so that you can be a monopoly is always the best way to do that. It was a good ride but open android is dead today unless the SEC stops this.

 

[droid_mike]

+100 this. This is very bad news for open source android. Googlemoto will lock down the OS even more if not take future versions off the market. Only Moto will get the good new versions of the android code and it will be severely locked down. Everybody that has this image that Google does no wrong needs to pull there heads out of there backsides. Google is out to make money eliminating the competition so that you can be a monopoly is always the best way to do that. It was a good ride but open android is dead today unless the SEC stops this.

Google's business model is totally different from Apple's. They make money purely off of advertising, and they need as much market share as they can to do it. Limiting manufacturers would significantly hurt market share and hurt Google as a whole. They are a company that has been very successful at being open. Why would they change that strategy now? Google isn't Apple. They are the anti-Apple. The purchase of Motorola is purely about patents and not much more than that.

 

[soulpatch]

+100 this. This is very bad news for open source android. Googlemoto will lock down the OS even more if not take future versions off the market. Only Moto will get the good new versions of the android code and it will be severely locked down. Everybody that has this image that Google does no wrong needs to pull there heads out of there backsides. Google is out to make money eliminating the competition so that you can be a monopoly is always the best way to do that. It was a good ride but open android is dead today unless the SEC stops this.

Why would a company throw away millions upon millons of dollars in basically free revenue each year? They do not have to pay any R&D, marketing, magement, or other costs associated with those companies rolling out the Android phones. They do not need to invest anything in legal backing of those phones either since the OS is open. It makes no sense fiscally for Google to even attempt to shut down any of the Android OS. They would not only lose tons of revenue coming form their market and such but and much more importantly it would cause those other phone manufactorers to either go to another OS which google competes with or build thier own which again competes with them. As a company you would rather corner the market and hitting it from every angle does a much better job then a pinpoint shot especially when you are late to the game and not named Apple.

The concern for the other manufactorers is that they continue to get the pure google phones in rotation. HTC, Samsung, ect backing out of Android would be a crushing blow to Google and would put the legal focus of Apple and Microsot squarely on Google now...

 

[SwiftLegend]

+100 this. This is very bad news for open source android. Googlemoto will lock down the OS even more if not take future versions off the market. Only Moto will get the good new versions of the android code and it will be severely locked down. Everybody that has this image that Google does no wrong needs to pull there heads out of there backsides. Google is out to make money eliminating the competition so that you can be a monopoly is always the best way to do that. It was a good ride but open android is dead today unless the SEC stops this.

Your wrong. Google isn't Apple. They're not bias and one sided. Not to mention Google is money hungry. How many Google services do you use, that you pay for...? That's right, none. Google makes their money off of advertising, not their users.

Anyways, Google and Moto joining is going to be epic. Imagine, the build quality of Moto with the pure Android experince of Google, and you got yourself an awesome device. They should buy Samsung, and start putting Super AMOLED screens in every device.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Google's business model is totally different from Apple's. They make money purely off of advertising, and they need as much market share as they can to do it. Limiting manufacturers would significantly hurt market share and hurt Google as a whole. They are a company that has been very successful at being open. Why would they change that strategy now? Google isn't Apple. They are the anti-Apple. The purchase of Motorola is purely about patents and not much more than that.

You do realize that these two statements contradict each other. There is nothing open about patents and acquiring them is an effort to lock down the market. And Moto's customers, which are NOT the end users, don't want open. They want to lock your eyeballs to there provided content. Why change the strategy? Because being open sourced builds market share but closed source locks in the market. Apple took open source BSD Unix and built a closed source OS on top of it. Microsoft did the same. And both are monopolies. Aint no body selling a iOS phone other then Apple. Can't legally buy a Mac except from Apple.

 

[soulpatch]

You do realize that these two statements contradict each other. There is nothing open about patents and acquiring them is an effort to lock down the market. And Moto's customers, which are NOT the end users, don't want open. They want to lock your eyeballs to there provided content. Why change the strategy? Because being open sourced builds market share but closed source locks in the market. Apple took open source BSD Unix and built a closed source OS on top of it. Microsoft did the same. And both are monopolies. Aint no body selling a iOS phone other then Apple. Can't legally buy a Mac except from Apple.

Google bought the patents to settle down the other OS's in their battle with Apple and MSFT over patents. Google finally stepping up to throw some skin in the game tells the other copanies that they too are willing to fight for their OS. With all the court battles going on now and those coming Google had to step into the game eventually or else the other manufactorers woudl slowly shy from Android. It is the way it is. Google aquiring the only mobile company able to be bought sets them up to defend their product with Motorola's patents and their chest of funds allows them to stand up to Apple and Msft when needed to keep the market in check.

 

[SwiftLegend]

And Moto's customers, which are NOT the end users, don't want open.

Every Moto phone owner I know wishes their phone was open, meaning unlocked bootloader, no blur, and no bloat.

 

[soulpatch]

I dont mind blur on my DX however I like them to unlock the bootloader so people can do what they want.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Every Moto phone owner I know wishes their phone was open, meaning unlocked bootloader, no blur, and no bloat.

And you REALLY think that is going to change with Google owning Moto? Wanna buy a bridge? It will be interesting to revisit this thread a year from now. I really doubt anything will be better.

 

[jroc]

All I have to say is....oh my....:icon_ banana:

Will be interesting to see how this move plays out. Its funny....Google just got them selves involved with an MS vs. Motorola lawsuit. (something about MS seeing something with Android source code) Now this. Then there was an article talking about Motorola, patents and different Android manufactures.

But...now Google has access to ALL Motorola Mobility's patents? Amazing move if you ask me.

I dont think this is a bad move. Look at how Google does with the Nexus devices. They dont get promoted out the ass, but still Nexus devices are their babies. If anything the next Nexus device, if its Motorola..if its a Droid.... it will get the Droid marketing behind it.

At the same time, I've been hearing around the net that Moto Mobility isnt making profits like it could. So dont just look at this as a good move for Google. This is something that Motorola Mobility probably needed too. Trust me, if Moto Mobility didnt need this, they wouldnt have been bought.

 

[TheOldFart]

You do realize that these two statements contradict each other. There is nothing open about patents and acquiring them is an effort to lock down the market. And Moto's customers, which are NOT the end users, don't want open. They want to lock your eyeballs to there provided content. Why change the strategy? Because being open sourced builds market share but closed source locks in the market. Apple took open source BSD Unix and built a closed source OS on top of it. Microsoft did the same. And both are monopolies. Aint no body selling a iOS phone other then Apple. Can't legally buy a Mac except from Apple.

Those 2 statements are not contradictory. Android is open source. Getting Moto's patents is about gaining ammunition to fight MS or Apple. You are just fishing to support your case, which has no basis. Try to restrain the panic.

 

[soulpatch]

Bloat is carrier driven more then anything so that will continue. Bootloaders will go the route of either unlocked from the start or following HTC's path of voiding the warranty should you wish to unlock it.

Blur and such is a feel to Moto products and doubt they will get rid of it though I do suspect Google will work with them to give it a better feel to blend in with more vanilla Android...

 

[Markster1]

Google's business model is totally different from Apple's. They make money purely off of advertising, and they need as much market share as they can to do it. Limiting manufacturers would significantly hurt market share and hurt Google as a whole. They are a company that has been very successful at being open. Why would they change that strategy now? Google isn't Apple. They are the anti-Apple. The purchase of Motorola is purely about patents and not much more than that.

That model just changed now, they'll be making money off of patents, intellectual rights along with software and hardware motorola owns.

Look at the big picture, google is gobbling everything up it can at an increasing pace. Their goal? I don't like the looks of it.

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