Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility

Google builds a search engine, forces the competition to start improving.<p>Google buys a webmail service, forces rapid improvements in the competition.<p>Google builds a browser, forces rapid improvements in the competition (Firefox).<p>Google buys a smartphone OS, competition already doing ok but probably tweaked some things.<p>Google starts building an inexpensive fiber network, makes incumbents sweat a little.<p>Google buys a smartphone manufacturer, forces competition to improve.<p>Next up, probably a mobile telco provider.<p>Google's thing seems to be improving the transfer and display of ads. Somehow they've turned that into a benefit to technology as a whole. It's a business model built on disruption.

I hope Motorola sets a new course towards premium iPhone territory.<p>I've always found raw naked Android much nicer to use than the silly re-skinning every manufacturer wastes time adding. Sense and blur are bad, but Sony's Timescape was absolutely the low-point.

I thought this acquisition as was just about patents. As much as I would love to see some true "Google hardware," I suspect it will be business as usual.

Most people here focus on the handsets but Moto Mobility's business that currently turns a profit is home (set top boxes and cable branch office equipment) where Motorola is big. I heard that Google is trying to use this advantage to boost GoogleTV but cable companies said they would boycott set top boxes that are Google branded, since they see it as a great threat.<p>So the question is: will Google sell the Home division? If they do, this may have <i>huge</i> ramifications for the US cable landscape.

It looks like they're putting in place some serious hitters in the Moto executive suite alongside Woodside. If it weren't for all the focus on patents, I would think these guys are serious about building hardware/consumer products.

I suspect other phone manufacturers will be less eager to invest in Android as a platform. Symbian's ownership was a huge problem back in the day. We will see a repeat of the drama I am afraid.

Whats the worst thing that could happen? All the manufactures drop Android? Good, then we will get an official, not messed with, Android phone directly from Google. I see only good in this.

Please correct me if I am wrong since I am not sure if I got all facts right.<p>Motorola is currently holding a patent on push technology. One of our courts in Germany stopped iCloud from pushing due to patent infringements. Now that Google bought Motorola Mobility do they own they patent?<p>If this would be the fact I would predict that we will see more lawsuits against Apple regarding this one patent. Sounds like a great weapon - forcing your competitor to kill one of the interesting parts of a service they use for advertisement.

I want my Google MotoGlasses special kit for the GoogleCar now.

There aren't many more industries Google can buy into and conquer, or are there? Coming soon: Google Oil Co and Google Power. I wonder what happens once Google have run out of markets to enter? Lets face it, Motorola were a struggling company finding it hard to keep up with the likes of Apple, lets see what Google can do and only hope their efforts are better than the time they launched Google+ and tried competing with Facebook.

Lets hope, that Google stops Motorola to produce the most crappy androids. An android phone that is for the trashcan, at the moment you buy it, because its not possible to exchange the kernel to fix long known security bugs.<p>And lets also hope that Google allows to update Kernels of old Motorola phones, also.

I hope this means Android updates will no longer take 6-12 months to roll out to Motorola phones.

I expect some interesting announcement for Google I/O.

I like their header design/animation...

Looking forward to 'droids that raise the bar. Android/Sense bit rot is horrible!

Google bought Motorola just because ballmer said android isn't free? <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/03/android-isnt-free/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/03/android-isnt-free/</a>