Google will buy Motorola Mobility, maker of the Droid line of smart phones for Verizon Wireless. Google Has agreed to pay 12.5 billion dollars, or $40 a share, to close the deal. Chief Executive Larry Page said in a conference call the Motorola will be run as a separate company. The deal is expected to be finalized pending regulatory approval by the end of this year or in early 2012.
Google is mainly focused on the protection it gains from the deal to defend itself, and its partners from patent infringement claims coming from Apple and from Microsoft. Currently the Android OS is being the target of lawsuits because although it is an open OS, it borrows heavily from intellectual property from Oracle. Google's chief counsel David Drummond said "We Believe we''ll be in a very good position to protect the Android ecosystem for all of our partners." This statement clarifies what companies like Oracle and Apple have been dealing with; Android OS is in clear violation of infringing on their patents. What can be deduced from Drummond's comment is that it knows Android was vulnerable without Motorola's patents. This however is not the end for Android's infringement troubles, but it is a start.
Recently in Europe sales of the Android running Galaxy Tab by Samsung have been halted due to copyright infringement claims by Apple.
Leave a comment below with your thoughts and what do you think this means for Google's partners like HTC and Samsung.
3 comments:
I, for one, welcome our Google overlords.
Google is so desperate, but so desperate...
I never liked any Motorola phones, and Motoblur is a joke. Fail.
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