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Lex Luthor
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:47 am 
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/breaki ... 5-billion/

Wow. This is a big deal.
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We need corporate behemoth cage matches.
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This is the first time Google is getting into the hardware market, I believe.
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Lex Luthor wrote:
This is the first time Google is getting into the hardware market, I believe.


Wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
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HTC built the Nexus One. Google just put their name on it.

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They aren't getting into the hardware businesses too deeply. Motorola Mobile will be run independently. Google did this to get the 17,000 patents.
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HTC built the Nexus One. Google just put their name on it.


And distributed it. Certainly they outsourced the actual construction, but I think you could easily say they were "in" the hardware market.
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Aegnor wrote:
Google did this to get the 17,000 patents.

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I wouldn't be surprised if Google just stripped Motorola of their intellectual property and spun off the hardware design and manufacturing.

Why is this in Hellfire?
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Midgen wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if Google just stripped Motorola of their intellectual property and spun off the hardware design and manufacturing.

Why is this in Hellfire?


It's controversial for companies to grow enormous.
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Not really.

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Not really.


Oh really? http://allthingsd.com/20110815/googles- ... to-action/ "Google’s Motorola Deal Will Spur Antitrust Regulators to Action"
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The FTC has a hard-on for trying to define Google as a monopoly. Of...something. Anything. Idiots.

I guess they don't feel the need to bribe like Microsoft.
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Wwen wrote:
Not really.

How 'bout, "Lex posted it and folks will **** in the thread just because of that"?

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I don't see antitrust regulators leaping to assault Apple's software/OS/music-distribution/music-player/telephone conglomerate. Calling Google's web-advertising/search/communication-software/OS hegemony's acquisition of a hardware arm, if they even keep it, offensive over-reaching...

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I have a feeling 90% of all technology-based FTC "anti-trust investigations" come about because of idiots who don't know how to look for alternatives.

"Everywhere I go, I see this 'Google' thing! Monopoly! Monopoly!" "Uh, sir, all you have to do is click here, and you'll use Bing or Yahoo, if you like..." "I SAID 'MONOPOLY,' BOY!" "Uh, OK..."
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Recent reports are saying that Google was forced into the buy by Microsoft, who was also in talks with Motorola. If MS got them, they'd gain a ton of Android-related patents and a huge one-up on Google.
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That makes even more sense... but wow.. twelve and a half Billion (with a B!) dollars!...
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... and a $2.5B breakup fee.
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