Google To Buy Motorola
I love my Defy but the support is shocking, lets hope Google dont forget about and release a blurless 2.3
Originally Posted by The Sack:
“I love my Defy but the support is shocking, lets hope Google dont forget about and release a blurless 2.3”
“I love my Defy but the support is shocking, lets hope Google dont forget about and release a blurless 2.3”
I suspect it is likely we will now start to see vanilla android devices released from Motorola far quicker than the competition....if anything this plays into Windows Phone 7 hands.....hardware vendors are going to be cautious about this acquisition. Its unlikely Google will use Motorola patents to defend the Android platform at least for other vendors...its a lot of money they are paying for Motorola and like microsoft with skype they won't be keen to give out the patent portfolio without license...
WOW I am shocked...
I reckon Google stepped in and bought Moto to protect other OHA members from further patent lawsuits...
The stuff that the Moto CEO was coming out with about being prepared to fight the others to protect Motorola's intellectual property was actually rather worrying...
Not only has this move eliminated that threat, but it has also strengthened the ecosystem extremely, and landed Google with a massive catalogue of patents to fight the likes of Apple and Microsoft with...
Google doesn't have any idea how to run a hardware company though, so hopefully they'll keep everyone in their jobs to make sure that this isn't a failure..
Also this has to equal death to MotoBLUR...that disgusting skin must die immediately and be replaced by vanilla Android....I wouldn't mind them making the next Nexus device either...
I reckon Google stepped in and bought Moto to protect other OHA members from further patent lawsuits...
The stuff that the Moto CEO was coming out with about being prepared to fight the others to protect Motorola's intellectual property was actually rather worrying...
Not only has this move eliminated that threat, but it has also strengthened the ecosystem extremely, and landed Google with a massive catalogue of patents to fight the likes of Apple and Microsoft with...
Google doesn't have any idea how to run a hardware company though, so hopefully they'll keep everyone in their jobs to make sure that this isn't a failure..
Also this has to equal death to MotoBLUR...that disgusting skin must die immediately and be replaced by vanilla Android....I wouldn't mind them making the next Nexus device either...
hmmmmm..... this is interesting!
now Google have a serious ability to launch the Android platform as a serious competitor to Apple's iOS, as they now have a hardware manufacturer to build Android phones & tablets (previously the manufacturers would build the devices based on Android's spec) but this means that Google can do what Apple do, and tailor each device specifically to Android
now Google have a serious ability to launch the Android platform as a serious competitor to Apple's iOS, as they now have a hardware manufacturer to build Android phones & tablets (previously the manufacturers would build the devices based on Android's spec) but this means that Google can do what Apple do, and tailor each device specifically to Android
Originally Posted by The Sack:
“I cant see it making a blind bit of difference TBH.”
“I cant see it making a blind bit of difference TBH.”
Motorola has 15,000 patents with a further 7,500 patents pending mainly relating to phone/network/home entertainment technology. That makes a huge difference
From a Open call with Google/Moto execs.
Q: Can you talk about the legal ramifications for the existing (Patent) lawsuits?
David C. Drummond is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google.
"The lawsuits will continue and will be managed by Motorola. I don't believe there's anything more to add. Post acquisition, we're not talking about the legal strategy today, but we'll be in a good position to protect all the partners"
Originally Posted by cribology:
“Motorola has 15,000 patents with a further 7,500 patents pending mainly relating to phone/network/home entertainment technology. That makes a huge difference
From a Open call with Google/Moto execs.
Q: Can you talk about the legal ramifications for the existing (Patent) lawsuits?
David C. Drummond is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google.
"The lawsuits will continue and will be managed by Motorola. I don't believe there's anything more to add. Post acquisition, we're not talking about the legal strategy today, but we'll be in a good position to protect all the partners"”
“Motorola has 15,000 patents with a further 7,500 patents pending mainly relating to phone/network/home entertainment technology. That makes a huge difference
From a Open call with Google/Moto execs.
Q: Can you talk about the legal ramifications for the existing (Patent) lawsuits?
David C. Drummond is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google.
"The lawsuits will continue and will be managed by Motorola. I don't believe there's anything more to add. Post acquisition, we're not talking about the legal strategy today, but we'll be in a good position to protect all the partners"”
Exactly, missed out on the Nortel ones so needed something,
This whole patent situation is getting stupid.
Originally Posted by DotNetWill:
“Exactly, missed out on the Nortel ones so needed something,
This whole patent situation is getting stupid.”
“Exactly, missed out on the Nortel ones so needed something,
This whole patent situation is getting stupid.”
Google didn't really want the Nortel patents. They valued them, realised the bidding was going to go way above what they were prepared to pay, so proceeded to take the royal mickey during the auction - they bid things like Pi and the sum of the Fibonacci sequence.
What is stupid about the American patent system, at least as far as I can tell, is that as long as you can vaguely demonstrate a theoretical method to achieve something, you can patent it. You don't even have to have a working prototype. As for design patents, Apple seem to have been suing people on the vaguest of vague glass-and-plastic-slab patents. IMO if you're going to grant a patent for a design, the product produced from this design should at least look very much like the original patent. The iPad looks nothing like the patent they're fighting Motorola and Samsung with.
Originally Posted by cribology:
“Motorola has 15,000 patents with a further 7,500 patents pending mainly relating to phone/network/home entertainment technology. That makes a huge difference
From a Open call with Google/Moto execs.
Q: Can you talk about the legal ramifications for the existing (Patent) lawsuits?
David C. Drummond is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google.
"The lawsuits will continue and will be managed by Motorola. I don't believe there's anything more to add. Post acquisition, we're not talking about the legal strategy today, but we'll be in a good position to protect all the partners"”
“Motorola has 15,000 patents with a further 7,500 patents pending mainly relating to phone/network/home entertainment technology. That makes a huge difference
From a Open call with Google/Moto execs.
Q: Can you talk about the legal ramifications for the existing (Patent) lawsuits?
David C. Drummond is Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google.
"The lawsuits will continue and will be managed by Motorola. I don't believe there's anything more to add. Post acquisition, we're not talking about the legal strategy today, but we'll be in a good position to protect all the partners"”
All very well but that was not the point put me was it
Originally Posted by The Sack:
“I love my Defy but the support is shocking, lets hope Google dont forget about and release a blurless 2.3”
“I love my Defy but the support is shocking, lets hope Google dont forget about and release a blurless 2.3”
You can already get a blur less 2.3 version of android on your defy.
Ive been running 2.3.5 for the last couple of months on my Defy and havent looked back.
Lets hope its just a defensive stance rather than industry sapping protectionism.
The problem for Apple is that their exclusive expensive platform fundamentally relies on lack of competition.
The problem for Apple is that their exclusive expensive platform fundamentally relies on lack of competition.
Which one did you have a problem with?
They were made in the USA.
Now they are contracted to the same Taiwan/Chinese companies as all the others.
They were made in the USA.
Now they are contracted to the same Taiwan/Chinese companies as all the others.
Originally Posted by david.boobis:
“Google didn't really want the Nortel patents. They valued them, realised the bidding was going to go way above what they were prepared to pay, so proceeded to take the royal mickey during the auction - they bid things like Pi and the sum of the Fibonacci sequence.
What is stupid about the American patent system, at least as far as I can tell, is that as long as you can vaguely demonstrate a theoretical method to achieve something, you can patent it. You don't even have to have a working prototype. As for design patents, Apple seem to have been suing people on the vaguest of vague glass-and-plastic-slab patents. IMO if you're going to grant a patent for a design, the product produced from this design should at least look very much like the original patent. The iPad looks nothing like the patent they're fighting Motorola and Samsung with.”
“Google didn't really want the Nortel patents. They valued them, realised the bidding was going to go way above what they were prepared to pay, so proceeded to take the royal mickey during the auction - they bid things like Pi and the sum of the Fibonacci sequence.
What is stupid about the American patent system, at least as far as I can tell, is that as long as you can vaguely demonstrate a theoretical method to achieve something, you can patent it. You don't even have to have a working prototype. As for design patents, Apple seem to have been suing people on the vaguest of vague glass-and-plastic-slab patents. IMO if you're going to grant a patent for a design, the product produced from this design should at least look very much like the original patent. The iPad looks nothing like the patent they're fighting Motorola and Samsung with.”
This is exactly right and it is nonsensical. Touch and feel is the bullshit Apple have come out with.
