When Google announced their plan to buy Motorola Mobility (MMI) last year the deal was widely praised by mobile industry analysts who predicted Motorola's phone patents would give Google the leverage needed to force Apple into a cross licensing agreement. Nearly ten months later, Google has finally cleared all the regulatory hurdles and the buyout is complete, but if anything it seems that ... [ read the full article ]
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One of the best breakdowns of Microsoft, Apple, and Google I've read on Afterdawn. The entire thing is disheartening, though, because past the history lesson and CEO analysis this basically boils down to an analysis of why Microsoft and Apple will beat out the world's greatest company, Google. Apple and Microsoft played dirty in addition to teaming up against Google, and Google's decision to buy Motorola seems to be interpreted by Vurb as a big mistake...
I can only hope that the experts at Google have seen something unseen here in buying Motorola, because I simply can't imagine them taking the initiative to purchase Motorola based solely on the belief that Motorola's SEPs will somehow magically force Apple into a cross-licensing agreement.
