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Because buying a company and shut it down for strategy purposes is exactly why people were so mad of Microsoft on 90's. One has the hope that when a failing bu
by pmelendez 14y ago
Because buying a company and shut it down for strategy purposes is exactly why people were so mad of Microsoft on 90's.
One has the hope that when a failing business is acquired the new owner will try to rescue it.
- aviraldg 14y agoThat's what they're trying to do here - they're trying to push out the product pipeline they inherited from Motorola, cutting their losses, and preparing for a more "unified" future with fewer, but better devices (nexii?)
- Kylekramer 14y agoSeems well beyond what any reasonable person would call evil. You require a company to save a business to not be evil? Even if saving the business is impossible or a resource suck? People had problems with Microsoft buying companies to merely shut down competition, not cause they bought companies and didn't save them. It is hard to believe the Motorola purchase was to crowd out a competitor.
- acchow 14y ago> Because buying a company and shut it down for strategy purposes is exactly why people were so mad of Microsoft on 90's. Straw man. Microsoft bought companies and shut them down to eliminate competition. That is evil. It also strategic, but it doesn't make any "acquisition to shut down for strategic purposes" evil.