What was the point of Google's purchase of Motorola if they keep having LG and others make their phones and tablets?
This question, I'm sure, is born of ignorance, but I'm just curious.
wvcadle said:
What was the point of Google's purchase of Motorola if they keep having LG and others make their phones and tablets?
This question, I'm sure, is born of ignorance, but I'm just curious.
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Because Motorola is owned by Google, they gave up their rights to make Nexus devices. Each year manufacturers bid against one another to see who will make the next Nexus, and it wouldn't be fair to others if Google used Motorola because they own them.
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Zombienaut said:
Because Motorola is owned by Google, they gave up their rights to make Nexus devices. Each year manufacturers bid against one another to see who will make the next Nexus, and it wouldn't be fair to others if Google used Motorola because they own them.
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Well, true or not, that doesn't make any sense. Why would a company not be allowed to manufacture their own product?
wvcadle said:
Well, true or not, that doesn't make any sense. Why would a company not be allowed to manufacture their own product?
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Even though Motorola is owned by Google, they're still two different companies. Motorola does not own the Nexus line, it's still a Google device. So Motorola will continue to make their phones, I.e. Droid and whatever else, with little involvement from Google.
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Zombienaut said:
Even though Motorola is owned by Google, they're still two different companies. Motorola does not own the Nexus line, it's still a Google device. So Motorola will continue to make their phones, I.e. Droid and whatever else, with little involvement from Google.
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So what you are saying is: Google owns the nexus line, Google owns the Motorola but somehow Motorola doesn't own the nexus line.... It kinda contradicts the fact that Google owns the Motorola but on the other hand it doesn't.
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Many companies purchase other companies, but continue to run them as separate entities. Google put some of their people into management positions at Motorola, but have yet to swallow the company whole. As far as the Nexus line, Google wanted to keep its stable of manufacturer partners happy by keeping the bidding process open to all. Motorola is free to bid along with other companies, but will receive no special consideration.
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wvcadle said:
What was the point of Google's purchase of Motorola if they keep having LG and others make their phones and tablets?
This question, I'm sure, is born of ignorance, but I'm just curious.
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Patents simple as that.
Google now has thousands of patents that it can defend its self with or use as a bargaining tool.
I think it's totally possible that Motorola will make a nexus phone in the near future.
There's no reason why they wouldn't.
Maybe Motorola is trying to keep a small footprint right now because they want to gauge the success of the x phone first.
The markets are already flooded with android phones. LG probably isn't going to make much profit on a phone without an established carrier to help market it. You have to also consider that the phone carriers have new plans that allow people to upgrade their phones more frequently. This makes a non-contract phone even LESS attractive.
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Because someone had to shut-dafuack-down this company!
PsyOr said:
Because someone had to shut-dafuack-down this company!
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If you're implying that Motorola is a bad company then you're severely wrong.
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MrBelter said:
Patents simple as that.
Google now has thousands of patents that it can defend its self with or use as a bargaining tool.
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Pretty sure that this is the main reason Google bought Moto
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Related
APPLE TOTALLY FAILED!!!!
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2359...ak_exploit_and_is_immediately_jailbroken.html
Hackers 10 Apple 0
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Good.
10char
when will these major corporations like apple and MS learn?
we buy your products not because of the bloatware BS that you insert... but for our own customization that "we" can Jailbreakingly (<---word?) insert lol
It don't matter... Apple minions will still buy and worship their products. 99% of them don't even know what Jailbreak is.
akarol said:
It don't matter... Apple minions will still buy and worship their products. 99% of them don't even know what Jailbreak is.
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Lol yup! Unfortunately, the same goes for people on android regarding rooting
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I don't get this? Apple patched a exploit, a new one was found. Apple will patch the new one. Why? For the same reason Google does it - security. Exploits are not only for rooting, they can and are also used for malicious reasons.
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I don't get this? Apple patched a exploit, a new one was found. Apple will patch the new one. Why? For the same reason Google does it - security. Exploits are not only for rooting, they can and are also used for malicious reasons.
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Just sad it took only 12 hrs yet apple is supposedly great at security
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LMAO!! To hell with Apple and its controls.... One day Steve Jobs will disappear and take his crap products with him!
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Just sad it took only 12 hrs yet apple is supposedly great at security
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So do people on here say the same when a Android phone is exploited even before its released? I've yet to see threads like that pop up.
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Award Tour said:
So do people on here say the same when a Android phone is exploited even before its released? I've yet to see threads like that pop up.
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Have you heard of claims Google or HTC is great at security no
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Apple has too many "Sheeples" following them...most of them aren't even going to pay attention to that article...it's a shame.
VyperVainz said:
Apple has too many "Sheeples" following them...most of them aren't even going to pay attention to that article...it's a shame.
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Most Android users don't know what root is or that the marketplace has malware all the time. Except that they aren't "sheep", their mostly just cheap.
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Just remember that an Android phone has more power than a jail-broken apple phone/device. Think about it this way, if they don't patch stuff like that... other countries like china will use them against us and attack the USA. They must patch. When someone can HACK A PHONE THROUGH A SIMPLE website, that isn't very secure. When we do it, it takes actually doing it manually. knowing what we are doing sortof.
Well, i for one, am sad to see this new patch ruin jailbreakme.com. I used to have so much fun wandering through the Apple stores in Dallas and quickly jailbreaking all their devices.
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Most Android users don't know what root is or that the marketplace has malware all the time. Except that they aren't "sheep", their mostly just cheap.
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I love that argument from you its so stupid and baseless its hilarious.
How much more expensive is the iPhone over the big sellers of Android? (Evo, Droid series, SGS) my point exactly.
You failed as bad as Apple did here.
http://www.slashgear.com/mock-t-mobile-commercials-poke-fun-at-att-deal-20166483/
another interesting post watch the vids
anyone else find it HILARIOUS that the guys handle was 'Redmond'?
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anyone else find it HILARIOUS that the guys handle was 'Redmond'?
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Yes lol
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mattykinsx said:
I love that argument from you its so stupid and baseless its hilarious.
How much more expensive is the iPhone over the big sellers of Android? (Evo, Droid series, SGS) my point exactly.
You failed as bad as Apple did here.
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I can pretty much 100% guarantee you that the average selling price of the iPhone is significantly higher than the average selling price of Android phones. This includes highend phones like the EVO, Droid x, etc. The iPhone 4 is always $200 (same as the regular retail price of high end Android phones at launch) subsidized in the US and constant at similar price over seas. How many sales, first and third party promotions, and drops in prices happen to highend Android phone? At times you can get highend Android phones for free or a couple of cents! Then add big selling low end lines like the Optimus One, and smaller lines are even more popular in low income countries. Look at what's selling there.
Yeah, that's what I thought, you again fail at thinking things through.
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Google buys Motorola Mobility, will this mean that the Atrix and other Moto phones will get faster updates?
And possibly run better being that they contol the hardware and software like apple and Iphones?
1) please search before you post there have been a few threads on this
2) it is a possibility we'll get updates faster, but they said Google and Motorola mobility will act as seperate companies
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dude772 said:
Google buys Motorola Mobility, will this mean that the Atrix and other Moto phones will get faster updates?
And possibly run better being that they contol the hardware and software like apple and Iphones?
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youre late http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1219090
Good read.
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must be a draft in here. it's pretty damn cold...
C+ for effort. Rule I live by. If I find info I think is new I just assume someone already posted it here.
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Replying to the op, I think google only bought moto for their patent portfolio.
Jeremy
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jeremyshaw said:
Replying to the op, I think google only bought moto for their patent portfolio.
Jeremy
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Yes that has a lot to do with it but its also to compete with Apple. If you the OS and hardware work together it creates a seamless design. Thats why Apple does so well with the iphone.
Since nexus S is not a very known phone I am still always asked by people what phone is this, I actually like this thing.
Anyways it's kinda interesting to answer that. I used to say it's a google nexus S, then I used to say that it's a samsung google nexus S and now I simply say samsung nexus S. People are like oh it's a galaxy? I am like well you can say that.
Samsung is the cool **** these days.
I say it's a nexus
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yeah...nexus is the king, no matter what. I throw nexus around like it makes me look cool lol
I just say Nexus S. I never say the phone's brand name, just the model number. It's a habit.
People still ask me what kind of phone I have. I simply tell them its the Google Nexus S and its one of android's flagship devices. Then I proceed to explain to them what that means lol
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Android. If they ask what computer? Linux. Simple as that.
# My dog is my avatar.
I usually say nexus s 4g, I've only found a handful of ppl that have even heard of it... most ppl, including the morons at our local Sprint store, think I mean a galaxy nexus...
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p1gp3n said:
I usually say nexus s 4g, I've only found a handful of ppl that have even heard of it... most ppl, including the morons at our local Sprint store, think I mean a galaxy nexus...
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Oh Sprint! Your employees can't even keep track of the different phones you sell/sold.
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I usually call it a google nexus s by samsung, than proceed to explain what that means to the uninitiated
I don't actually know anyone else who owns one!
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If they have to ask what phone it is I just say it's a Samsung. Anybody who would know what a nexus is would recognize it on sight.
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I usually say nexus s 4g, I've only found a handful of ppl that have even heard of it... most ppl, including the morons at our local Sprint store, think I mean a galaxy nexus...
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I bought this phone off of someone thinking it was a galaxy nexus :/
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I might start saying Samsung just because of recent events
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daboikrisco said:
People still ask me what kind of phone I have. I simply tell them its the Google Nexus S and its one of android's flagship devices. Then I proceed to explain to them what that means lol
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The conversation usually goes like this:
Friend: What's your phone?
Me: Oh it's a nexus!
Friend: Ah...a Samsung?
Me: Well, yeah...but it's a pure Google/Android device...
Friend: So....it's a galaxy?
Me: Oh no! It's pure Google. Samsung modifies their version of Android.
Friend: Oh OK....(changes topic at this point since he actually has no idea what the hell I'm blabbering about and/or he uses an iPhone anyway).
I say "nexus s" and they say "oh" and change the topic lol
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People who care know that Nexus is Google's branding, people who don't won't care if it's a Samsung or a Google or anything. I usually say I have a Nexus S (adding Sprint if they asked) if they then give me a blank stare I say "Samsung and Google partnered to make a pure Android phone."
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The conversation usually goes like this:
Friend: What's your phone?
Me: Oh it's a nexus!
Friend: Ah...a Samsung?
Me: Well, yeah...but it's a pure Google/Android device...
Friend: So....it's a galaxy?
Me: Oh no! It's pure Google. Samsung modifies their version of Android.
Friend: Oh OK....(changes topic at this point since he actually has no idea what the hell I'm blabbering about and/or he uses an iPhone anyway).
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I say "nexus s" and they say "oh" and change the topic lol
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This is pretty much on par with almost every phone conversation I've ever had. Now these are mostly avoided by coworkers and family because they don't want to hear me blabber on about "pure Google" and ROMs.
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I say pure google, then fly away
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I say pure google, then fly away
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Lmao I was rolling when I saw this.. But like someone else says I don't know anyone else who has a Nexus
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I've given up saying Nexus pretty much, at least with the people I go to school with. I tell them it's an Android, and if they want to know more then I tell them it's a Nexus S.
# of times people have cared: 0
I'm sure everyone remembers this rumor from about six months ago. Where manufacturers could develop a nexus phone as long as it meet the requirements. Even though the s4 isn't labeled a nexus it meets the other requirements. Do you think that other manufacturers will follow suit and offer pure Google phones? I wouldn't mind seeing a dev HTC one.
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I just read on BGR that HTC will not be making a pure Android experience One :'(
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If they made a stock HTC One..... oh man, that might just make me jump from the Nexus o_0
If Nokia ever jumped the Microsoft bandwagon and considered making phones on Android + joined the Nexus program, wouldn't that be the most amazing thing now.
yahoowizard said:
If Nokia ever jumped the Microsoft bandwagon and considered making phones on Android + joined the Nexus program, wouldn't that be the most amazing thing now.
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Ha! A n96 nexus!
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there is already a developer edition of HTC One fully unlocked which comes with sense though
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I'm sure everyone remembers this rumor from about six months ago. Where manufacturers could develop a nexus phone as long as it meet the requirements. Even though the s4 isn't labeled a nexus it meets the other requirements. Do you think that other manufacturers will follow suit and offer pure Google phones? I wouldn't mind seeing a dev HTC one.
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What you mean by other requirements? There are no requirements I know of. Nexus is a brand of products which are built for Google by OEMs as per Google's specification and requirement. S4 isn't built the way Google wants e.g it had hardware buttons and also carries menu button Google let go 2 years back.
This isn't the first time such a thing had happened. 2 years back Google gave Samsung tab to IO attendees with AOSP on it. About a year back Google did an exercise of trying to support Xperia S in AOSP headed by JBQ himself. The only difference is that this is the first time Google is selling such a device via Play Store.
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Any wagers on Play store server crashing?
Now i made this conclusion based on this link:
500,000 from Late August to November.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5097532/moto-x-only-500000-devices-reportedly-sold
900,000 in quater 1 2014 globally
http://www.cnet.com/news/motorola-to-shutter-texas-factory-building-moto-x/
Which equal 1.4 millions devices on Q1 2014,Q3 2013.
Now, Motorola or google want to sell it Texas factory what will the Moto x2 or Moto x+1 will look like?
As the deal is over by December of this year.
You guys posted and telling me or informed us with your opinion or conclusion to Motorola second devices that sell over million that they posted in sales figures since the original droid.
Samsung seeks over 10 mil and HTC half of that with much greater margins. It's all business, btw I don't think Google ever intended to ever keep Moto they just wanted the patents.
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Yeah I guess but I wonder how many droid RAZR series they sold ?
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Google used Motorola I never wanted them to purchase in 2011. And , approval the purchase in 2012.
That the was the reason why they cancel HDMI and physical keyboard on their device too.
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Google used Motorola I never wanted them to purchase in 2011. And , approval the purchase in 2012.
That the was the reason why they cancel HDMI and physical keyboard on their device too.
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They also saved Motorola from bankruptcy
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Motorola could done better without Google stripping 10,000 jobs over to supposedly add back 2,000 jobs
??
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22454951/motorola-launches-made-in-the-usa-smartphone
What happen it end up being 700 people Google is as evil as Apple and Microsoft.
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They also saved Motorola from bankruptcy
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add119 said:
Motorola could done better without Google stripping 10,000 jobs over to supposedly add back 2,000 jobs
??
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22454951/motorola-launches-made-in-the-usa-smartphone
What happen it end up being 700 people Google is as evil as Apple and Microsoft.
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Actually if you think about it Moto was already doing horrible before Google bought them, it was only time before they cut jobs to stay alive. Google made smart decisions imo not everything Google does is good and Google didn't do this for charity but I believe it made Motorola phones matter again, before they bought them not too many people even considered Motorola as a potential phone.
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Yeah
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Actually if you think about it Moto was already doing horrible before Google bought them, it was only time before they cut jobs to stay alive. Google made smart decisions imo not everything Google does is good and Google didn't do this for charity but I believe it made Motorola phones matter again, before they bought them not too many people even considered Motorola as a potential phone.
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