Yesterday Google foretell it wasbuying Motorola Mobilitybecause “ Microsoft and Apple are a clustering of liberal meany who have made us get out hands dirty in this filthy , lousy patent stage business . ” That may not be a lineal quotation mark .
Not thatthe real quotation is much well .
Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google ’s letters patent portfolio , which will enable us to well protect Android from anti - competitive threats from Microsoft , Apple and other companies .
So , when the Macalope says“Welcome , Google . Seriously . ”he means welcome to the patent of invention warsandthe hardware wars . AsPhillip Elmer - Dewitt short letter :
As Motorola has discovered with its Droid smartphones and Xoom tablets , sell Android machine in Apple ’s shadow is a bowelless business , with tough contest and razor - thin margins .
Enjoy ! Of course , even if they get into the phone business organisation they wo n’t beinthe phone business concern . No , they ’re in the lookup and advert business concern . They want to show you ads . And if you pass to have a skillful exploiter experience , whatever , meat sack . You ’re the product they ’re selling to adman .
This acquisition will probably be devastating to Apple as not only will Google now feel out the secret of theROKR , it ’ll also ascertain the iPad - pop Xoom ( 4 G ascent now come in Septemberwhich is Indiansummerso just shut up , shut up , shut up ! ) .
Matt Drance suggestsMotorola smartly talked up the request monetary value by threatening to move to Windows 7 and use its patent against other Android OEMs . One does wonder how yield $ 12.5 billion for patents that are no silver bullet is a good deal than just contributing to the$4.5 billion acquisition of the Nortel patent . Motorola was already a case of a lawsuit from Microsoft that it’snot have much success in getting reduced .
Presumably , though , Google did its due industry and verified that these patents are all of thenon - phoney variety . There ’s nothing bad than getting home from a daytime of fling on patents and let on them to find they ’re all bastard . What a letdown that is .
In retrospect , Google ’s whining about the injustice of Microsoft and Apple ’s suits was probably a apparatus for this softwood . Google want to make indisputable it gave itself enough book binding for its patent orgy which make believe the whole tantrum even more pathetic , unless you ’re Dan Lyons whofinds the whole thing brilliant . The Macalope think he ’s probably veracious about Larry Page ’s motivations , but he ’s more withMG Siegler , this was not some brilliantaikidomove as far as the patents are concerned , anyway .
The existent winner in this ? The Macalope suspects it ’s Microsoft . While the other Android OEMsdutifully fork over their Google - pass , Android permit - keep words of praise for the dealwith all the enthusiasm of Lando Calrissian telling Darth Vader he does n’t feel he ’s being do by unfairly , their next call was in all likelihood to Redmond . If Microsoft were smart they ’d have a sale on Windows Phone 7 OEM licence this week .
