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Typical forced intention after fact. To say Google not interested in hardware when they purchased Motorola is plain baseless.

• y4mi 9y ago
  It's not really 'after the fact' if that's been the popular opinion since before the deal in 2011 though
• nl 9y ago
  That is what all the coverage at the time pointed out. They missed out on the Nortel patent portfolio earlier that year I think.
  • ZeroGravitas 9y ago
    Coverage at the time, and since, in the apple-centric web focused on how Google tried to compete in hardware with Apple and failed and how they "lost" billions on the deal. So that may be where this confusion arises.
• Oletros 9y ago
  From the blog post announcing they bought Motorola: > We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies. https://googleblog.blogspot.de/2011/08/supercharging-android-google-to-acquire.html https://googleblog.blogspot.de/2011/08/supercharging-android...