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Good story in the WSJ - 2nd UPDATE: Google Agrees To Buy Motorola Mobility For $12.5B - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110815-708280.html - broken link)
They make the point that now that Google will own it's own hardware maker, how long will they continue to license the Android OS for free.
Good story in the WSJ - 2nd UPDATE: Google Agrees To Buy Motorola Mobility For $12.5B - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110815-708280.html - broken link)
They make the point that now that Google will own it's own hardware maker, how long will they continue to license the Android OS for free.
My guess is that they wanted to buy the patents, but the Motorola people wanted too high a price, so they ended up buying the whole company. I suspect Google will spin off Motorola without the patent portfolio after the merger is completed. The spin-off will presumably include non-transferable rights to the patents.
Google won't take Apple under. Apple's products are far superior to Google's.
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