It's a smart way to sell the deal early on: The government might buy it, and Android partners might buy it, too.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Google: We Bought Motorola To "Protect" The Android Ecosystem
Google says it is paying $12.5 billion to protect the Android ecosystem from the patent warfare of Microsoft and Apple. Google is not going to be giving Motorola favorable treatment, says Android chief Andy Rubin. It will be a separate division and it will have to fight for Google's business like everyone else.
It's a smart way to sell the deal early on: The government might buy it, and Android partners might buy it, too.
It's a smart way to sell the deal early on: The government might buy it, and Android partners might buy it, too.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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