Google buys Motorola

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disolitude said:

Vetteman94 said:

kowenicki said:
I dont get it....

Odd choice (Awful brand with a vanishing market share) and odd business dedcision. I must be missing something very obvious.

Motorola owns over 20,000 patents.

That number is a little decieving as very few of their pattents are related to the operating system. Motorolla never had a smartphone OS of their own...

Still i'm sure Apple and MS wont be able to sue them for some things.

Most of those patents are hardware related.

Still the next time Apple sues on a software patent they can countersue on a hardware one....( the way they grant patents these days it's not that hard to find one that someone might have breached..)