In easily the biggest tech news of the day, Lenovo has agreed to acquire the Motorola Mobility smartphone business purchased by Google in 2011.
Lenovo finally gets their entry into the North American market (as well as a better foothold in Western Europe), and Google gets to dump a division that has been hemorrhaging money for years. Google purchased Motorola Mobility for its patents ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by sundance: Guess it's a good deal but is it a smart deal??????
"Google gets to dump a division that has been hemorrhaging money for years".
Lenovo wants into the US phone/tablet marketplace. They know from experience in the PC/Laptop sector that establishing a brand in the US is far from easy. The only question is if it is easier to bring back a failed brand or create a whole new brand from scratch...well, that and if US consumers prefer a brand that they can spell phonetically.
Actually, there is another question that is almost certainly already answered in the negative: can a company comprised mostly of people from a country with an education system designed to make mindless authority-following zombies innovate?
Originally posted by sundance: Guess it's a good deal but is it a smart deal??????
"Google gets to dump a division that has been hemorrhaging money for years".
Lenovo wants into the US phone/tablet marketplace. They know from experience in the PC/Laptop sector that establishing a brand in the US is far from easy. The only question is if it is easier to bring back a failed brand or create a whole new brand from scratch...well, that and if US consumers prefer a brand that they can spell phonetically.
Actually, there is another question that is almost certainly already answered in the negative: can a company comprised mostly of people from a country with an education system designed to make mindless authority-following zombies innovate?
Answer=NO
Nobody in any 1st world country can name 3 big Chinese companies because all they do is either copy or produce products under other names. To get around this, Lenovo bought "Thinkpad", an established (and once respected) laptop brand, and now they are buying Moto, a (once respected) headset manufacturing company.
It will be interesting to see if they move US manufacturing to Asia since future Moto hardware will all be from Lanovo headquarters and already stamped out in Chinese plants.
