Please keep making stock handsets, Moto. And keep assembling phones in the US.![]()
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Please keep making stock handsets, Moto. And keep assembling phones in the US.![]()
It is speculation, not a conclusion. Both quality cheap smartphones -- the low end Lumia and the Moto G -- happened under the ownership of software companies.
It is speculation, not a conclusion. Both quality cheap smartphones -- the low end Lumia and the Moto G -- happened under the ownership of software companies.
Goodbye Moto.
Goodbye Moto.
This may have been mentioned already but most likely selling Motorola was the condition that Samsung imposed on Google in exchange for the 10 year cross-licensing agreement.
Lenovo already makes hardware in the US. So not sure why it's laughable to think it could stay the same with Motorola.
This may have been mentioned already but most likely selling Motorola was the condition that Samsung imposed on Google in exchange for the 10 year cross-licensing agreement.
along with having Samsung stop making Touchwiz be the ugliest thing in the world.
Should have just given Samsung that $12 billion instead then.
Google's blockbuster $2.9 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo won't include the Advanced Technology and Projects group led by former DARPA director Regina Dugan. The news was confirmed today on a conference call with Lenovo, and sources familiar with the matter say the group will be integrated with Google's Android team, where Dugan will report to Sundar Pichai but maintain a more independent role.
Dugan, who was named to The Verge 50 earlier this year, manages a team of just under 100 people, all of whom will be moving from their current offices in Sunnyvale to Google's Mountain View office.
GOOGLE WANTS TO SCALE PROJECT ARA
The most notable project to come from Dugan's group was the Project Ara modular phone, which allows different phone configurations to be constructed from various parts. The plan is to use Google's scale and resources to accelerate the project, as well as other wild ideas like security tattoos and other biotech sensors.
Google will also retain the patents developed by the Advanced Technology group, although Lenovo will have a license to them.
Man, the future of Motorola Mobility under Google seemed so promising... very sad news :-(
Well Google are keeping one part of Motorolla according to The Verge Google to keep Motorola's Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone
Looks like they do, but only since last year. Well then, I delol my lol.
Still, I wonder what'll happen to stuff like the Moto G which is pretty unique in the android ecosystem. Google could afford to sell it for no profit but Lenovo will probably kill it as soon a they can.
And here I was looking into purchasing a Moto X haha, that won't be happening now.
Moto will just become a part of Lenovo sometime during your contract. What exactly are you worried about?
Their patents are what defines and has enabled cellular technology for the past 30 years. They are the most important and pervasive cellular patents, and pretty much everyone has been violating them or trying to contest them for years.
These are mostly considered standard essentials and thus won't do them any good in the court. The reason most fear Apple is that they are sitting on a gold mine of design and non-essential patents.
So between this and the recent rumors of Google dropping the Nexus line by 2015, the future of affordable high spec phones doesn't look too bright.
Moto total cost $12.5B to Goog in 2011:
- $3.2B Moto's 2011 cash
- $2.4B Moto's 2011 deferred tax assets
- $2.35B Moto's Set-top-box business sold in 2012
- $75M Moto's factories business sold in 2013 (incl 7K factory employees)
- $2.91B Moto's Mobility business sold in 2014
Thus Moto's remaining assets including patents, buildings (in Chicago and elsewhere), probably a good part of the 12K employees cost Goog $1.56B.
Doing that, Goog may have well protected and guided the Android ecosystem along in the past couple years.
Patents that may or may not be worthless.
This may have been mentioned already but most likely selling Motorola was the condition that Samsung imposed on Google in exchange for the 10 year cross-licensing agreement.
Just to clarify those saying this sale is costing google 9.6 Billion, saw this post on G+ (emphasis is mine):
Moto total cost $12.5B to Goog in 2011:
- $3.2B Moto's 2011 cash
- $2.4B Moto's 2011 deferred tax assets
- $2.35B Moto's Set-top-box business sold in 2012
- $75M Moto's factories business sold in 2013 (incl 7K factory employees)
- $2.91B Moto's Mobility business sold in 2014
Thus Moto's remaining assets including patents, buildings (in Chicago and elsewhere), probably a good part of the 12K employees cost Goog $1.56B.
Doing that, Goog may have well protected and guided the Android ecosystem along in the past couple years.
Nicolas Charbonnier
This sounds like complete baseless speculation. I mean, noone can prove it wrong, but as far as I know there's nothing out there that solidly suggests this at all. Samsung wants in on GLASS hardware, and Im sure cross licensing patents has benefit for both sides.
Yeah I'm not sure why people are throwing 9b in losses around. Its not even remotely close to that. There's more to things than just the sale prices. They didn't lose anywhere near that much on this. And they retained the patents and the Advanced Tech Group + its patents and staff which was probably the best thing Moto had going. 1.5B for what they have gotten out of this overall isn't that bad. Especially when Nest goes for twice that much.
On the flip side its disappointing because under Google Motorola put out what was by FAR their absolute best smartphones to date. Not even the original Droid can comparatively (for its time) hold a candle to the X and the G.
Well Google are keeping one part of Motorolla according to The Verge Google to keep Motorola's Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone
It's official:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-motorola-mobility.html
BUT THE PATENTS?! WILL GOOGLE KEEP ANY PATENTS?!
Google will retain the vast majority of Motorolas patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem.
Without Google pushing them, would Lenovo want to continue with products like the Moto G? LG has been clear that the Nexus 5 as it is sold on the Play store simply isn't possible without Google's involvement.
This will make the motoG the only excellent cheap android smartphone. ever.