Google Sells Motorola to Lenovo - Google

http://googlesystem.blogspot.tw/2014/01/google-sells-motorola-to-lenovo.html

January 29, 2014

Google's decision to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion is
even more surprising than Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5
billion in 2011.


"Lenovo will now acquire world-renowned Motorola Mobility, including the
MOTOROLA brand and Motorola Mobility's portfolio of innovative smartphones
like the Moto X and Moto G and the DROID™ Ultra series. In addition to
current products, Lenovo will take ownership of the future Motorola Mobility
product roadmap. Google will maintain ownership of the vast majority of the
Motorola Mobility patent portfolio, including current patent applications and
invention disclosures."

Motorola's patents weren't that valuable, Google didn't manage to make
Motorola profitable, it started to compete with the other Android OEMs and
sold Motorola at a loss. Still, why not try harder to make Motorola shine
once again? Why admit defeat and show that your strategy was wrong?

I think the answer can be found in Google's licensing agreement with Samsung:

"Samsung Electronics and Google Inc. furthered their long-term cooperative
partnership with a global patent cross-license agreement covering a broad
range of technologies and business areas. The mutually beneficial agreement
covers the two companies existing patents as well as those filed over the
next 10 years."

Samsung is the biggest Android OEM and a switch from Android to Tizen would
be a very bad news for Google. If Samsung used its dominant position and
asked Google to get rid of Motorola, Google didn't have other options.

Motorola is a lost bet, Google showed that the health of the Android
ecosystem is more important than owning Motorola.

"Lenovo has the expertise and track record to scale Motorola Mobility into a
major player within the Android ecosystem. This move will enable Google to
devote our energy to driving innovation across the Android ecosystem, for the
benefit of smartphone users everywhere," said Larry Page, CEO, Google.

Lenovo才剛買IBM x86 Server...這是在辦年貨嗎？


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