On Aug 16, 3:33 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > So, looking at it like that, they just dropped 12,000 million dollars on a > patent portfolio. Boy. That's hard to comprehend, isn't it?
If an account of an answer by Google chairman Eric Schmidt (http:// www.businessinsider.com/google-chairman-eric-schmidt-2011-9) is to believed (and he said some, um, questionable things in the past), then it's also about the hardware: "We did it for more than just patents. We actually believe that the Motorola team has some amazing products coming....We're excited to have the product line, to use the Motorola brand, the product architecture, the engineers. [...] [We like] having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software." A clear nod to Apple's integrated / closed strategy, if you ask me, and cause for a little worry at the Android OEMs. But what are they going to do? It's not that the only other option for most (Windows Phone) is flying off the shelves. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
