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Not a bluff. Microsoft would gladly have paid billions to increase their ability to extort fees from Android manufacturers, or shut them down altogether like Ap
by orangecat 15y ago
Not a bluff. Microsoft would gladly have paid billions to increase their ability to extort fees from Android manufacturers, or shut them down altogether like Apple is trying to do.
- Kadrith 15y agoOr to prevent Google from acquiring MOTO's patents and potentially remove the second largest Android manufacturer.
- VladRussian 15y ago>Microsoft would gladly have paid billions even following your logic and supposing that buying MOTO would have helped MSFT achieve these goals - they still haven't paid the billions, or do you suggest that there was a bidding war (and a young cool player just overbid them ? :)
- nkassis 15y agoHaven't seen numbers for what Microsoft was willing to pay. How do you know they overbid?