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Motorola is very much known outside the US. The Razr was one of the most popular pre-iphone phones. Also the wild speculation in: Google probably told Samsu

by octo_t 13y ago

Motorola is very much known outside the US. The Razr was one of the most popular pre-iphone phones. Also the wild speculation in: Google probably told Samsung that they’ll get rid of Motorola if TouchWiz is taken behind the barn and put to sleep with one round of a deafeningly loud sawed off shotgun. seems incredibly suspect to me.

ansimionescu 13y ago
Agreed, the article is grade A bull poop. edit: it's actually reminiscent of the articles Prismatic usually recommends to me, which are so dumb they make me want to throw my laptop in a ditch and sew my eyelids shut. Incidentally, does anyone know how this happen? I love their site/approach to news, I'm just curious why their ML algorithms tend to churn out so much crap indiscriminately.
- leobelle 13y ago
  > Agreed, the article is grade A bull poop. For what it's worth I thought the parts about plastic phones that go bleep and bloop was pretty funny. So not entirely poop. I'm going to make my Galaxy S4 bloop a bit now.
Touche 13y ago
Speculation is speculation. This one seems as reasonable as any other explanation for why Google dumped Motorola less than 2 years after buying it.
corresation 13y ago
Motorola retreated from most international markets, and the overwhelming majority of sales now are in the US. As to the supposed Samsung agreement, it does seem to be wild speculation and unsourced rumors, but then so were the other dozen front-pagers claiming it. However it is interesting that Samsung and Google just became the best of friends (the unprecedented patent agreement) at the same time that this agreement was happening. There are obvious reasons why Samsung (and LG, and Sony, and HTC, and...) would worry about Google owning Motorola.
- dba7dba 13y ago
  Samsung has similar agreement with Sony (2011) and IBM (2004) so I wouldn't call Samsung-Google best buddies. Samsung does it with anyone who's worthy of Samsung's own stockpile of patents...
higherpurpose 13y ago
When? 8 years ago? Yes, Motorola is "known" as in "yes, I recognize that name", but they definitely don't have a "strong brand" outside of US anymore. Even in US, it was becoming quite weak before the Moto X/G (when it grew a little more because of Google's rebranding and advertising money). I've actually gone into an Orange store last week and asked them about whether they are bringing Moto G. The store clerk looked at me confused and said "Motorola? We haven't sold Motorola phones in years". Also, the Touchwiz thing wasn't really speculation on the author's part. It was published in Recode: http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-google-pressure-samsung-will-dial-back-android-tweaks-homegrown-apps/ http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-google-pressure-samsung-w...

by octo_t 13y ago

ansimionescu 13y ago

Agreed, the article is grade A bull poop. edit: it's actually reminiscent of the articles Prismatic usually recommends to me, which are so dumb they make me want to throw my laptop in a ditch and sew my eyelids shut. Incidentally, does anyone know how this happen? I love their site/approach to news, I'm just curious why their ML algorithms tend to churn out so much crap indiscriminately.

leobelle 13y ago
> Agreed, the article is grade A bull poop. For what it's worth I thought the parts about plastic phones that go bleep and bloop was pretty funny. So not entirely poop. I'm going to make my Galaxy S4 bloop a bit now.

Touche 13y ago

Speculation is speculation. This one seems as reasonable as any other explanation for why Google dumped Motorola less than 2 years after buying it.

corresation 13y ago

Motorola retreated from most international markets, and the overwhelming majority of sales now are in the US. As to the supposed Samsung agreement, it does seem to be wild speculation and unsourced rumors, but then so were the other dozen front-pagers claiming it. However it is interesting that Samsung and Google just became the best of friends (the unprecedented patent agreement) at the same time that this agreement was happening. There are obvious reasons why Samsung (and LG, and Sony, and HTC, and...) would worry about Google owning Motorola.

dba7dba 13y ago
Samsung has similar agreement with Sony (2011) and IBM (2004) so I wouldn't call Samsung-Google best buddies. Samsung does it with anyone who's worthy of Samsung's own stockpile of patents...

higherpurpose 13y ago

When? 8 years ago? Yes, Motorola is "known" as in "yes, I recognize that name", but they definitely don't have a "strong brand" outside of US anymore. Even in US, it was becoming quite weak before the Moto X/G (when it grew a little more because of Google's rebranding and advertising money). I've actually gone into an Orange store last week and asked them about whether they are bringing Moto G. The store clerk looked at me confused and said "Motorola? We haven't sold Motorola phones in years". Also, the Touchwiz thing wasn't really speculation on the author's part. It was published in Recode: http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-google-pressure-samsung-will-dial-back-android-tweaks-homegrown-apps/ http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-google-pressure-samsung-w...