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Old 12-19-2012, 09:55 PM
 
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Jobs and intellectual property for set-top boxes headed to Georgia based Arris Inc --
Google to Sell Motorola Home to Arris for $2.35 Billion - Businessweek

There were some hoping that this would a way for google to get more Android powered devices into regular folks living rooms. Doesn't look like that is gonna happen.
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Old 12-19-2012, 10:50 PM
 
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What many fail to realize is that it's a lot cheaper to partner with other companies to get your software on the devices if that's your whole thing than to have an entire business practice behind it. Smart move by Google
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Old 12-20-2012, 01:32 AM
 
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Seems like a good call. Google wanted moto for the phone patents, and they didn't seem too interested in the set top boxes.
Give it to someone who will be passionate about it.

Besides, they probably envision Google TV being vendor agnostic just like Andorid. Otherwise you'd only see it on the motorola boxes.
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Old 12-20-2012, 06:15 AM
 
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Seems like a good call.
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Smart move by Google
Yep. It was common knowledge from the beginning that they were going to keep what they wanted to use and sell off what they didn't. Nothing unusual here.
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Old 12-20-2012, 08:09 AM
 
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I feel bad for the engineers, marketers, accountants and others that will lose their jobs and have to face the crummy economic conditions of our region.
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Old 12-20-2012, 08:31 AM
 
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I feel bad for the engineers, marketers, accountants and others that will lose their jobs and have to face the crummy economic conditions of our region.
Nowhere in that article does it even mention anything about how many people, if any, will be let go and how much of the division even works in the Chicago area at that.
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Old 12-20-2012, 08:51 AM
 
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There were about 5000 worldwide employees. The majority were local to the region. Typically when firms are acquired primarily for their patent portfolio there are major reducations in staff -- Google offloads Motorola Home to Arris for US$2.35B | ZDNet

The only folks that seem to think google will be good for the future of Motorola are the dreamers that ignore history...
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Old 12-20-2012, 09:39 AM
 
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The important question in terms of employment isn't whether there will be fewer employees in the future than there used to be, it's whether there will be fewer employees in the future under Google than there would have been in a future without Google. If a company is being salvaged for its patents, that's a pretty good sign that the rest of it wasn't going to be profitable. If Google thought it could be profitable enough running it the same way it was being run, they would be doing so, and if Motorola had thought they could continue to be profitable as they were, they wouldn't have sold in the first place. Layoffs were going to come either way.
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Old 12-20-2012, 02:11 PM
 
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Given that google is not skilled in manufacturing, mmarketing, distribution, or suppport of physical devices ( see previous FLOPS like Logitech GoogleTV, "Nexus Q" or HTC G1...) it seems that they were the wrong company to join forces with Motorola...

Logitech’s Google TV failure: Too much, too soon -- Online Video News

Google shutters online store for Nexus One smart phone, signaling marketing failure - NY Daily News

Google's Nexus Q "Delayed" to Fail Another Day
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Old 12-20-2012, 02:38 PM
 
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Given that google is not skilled in manufacturing, mmarketing, distribution, or suppport of physical devices...
...they sell those parts of their acquisitions to companies that are.

Thought I'd finish your sentence in a way that makes more sense.
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