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How did they botch it? Moto was a strategic acquisition for patents; Google never intended to keep the business.
by ditn 9y ago
How did they botch it? Moto was a strategic acquisition for patents; Google never intended to keep the business.
- bryanlarsen 9y agoIf that was the intention from the beginning they would have divested the smartphone business immediately rather than doing it 2.5 years later. It's likely and possible that the patents were the primary purpose for the acquisition. But they put too much money & effort into the handset business to suggest that they never intended to make a go of it.
- 0xFFC 9y ago> 2.5 years later In a scale that big, "2.5 years later" counts as immediate.