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Google Bought Motorola for More Than Patents, Schmidt Says

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42 pointsjoelhaus10 comments

As someone who was there, I think it's fair to say that this article had no real business being written. Yes, the quote from Eric is accurate. However, it was literally the only sentence he spoke about the deal and it was completely devoid of any information. The two main topics of the interview were the economy (and the political landscape) and the history of modern computing as see through Eric's lens (PARC --> Sun --> Novell --> Google).

Too bad what they said about the economy and politics were not covered - that would have been more interesting.

This may include it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955153

[edit:] Actually it does, you can skip to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDl5hb0XbfY#t=41m38s

The article has exactly as much information as its title.

I think the subtext is that. before, the Google line on the acquisition is that it was solely for the patents. Possibly to not piss off their other partners who are making the hardware that competes with Motorola. To my knowledge this is the first Google exec to admit publicly that having control over both the hardware and software platforms could make better products.

Most of the talk of Google buying Motorola Mobile has been about the patents and more control over the hardware. I think it's also important to consider the tax breaks Google could be aiming for -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/google_buys_tax_brea...

does anyone else find the URL for this article strange?

not just strange ... it's like a hidden message

A little bit of googling suggests those comments came from a salesforce.com presentation he gave. Perhaps that part of the article was edited out and the title changed, but the url didn't.

Freudian slip?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/01/...

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