Daring Fireball: Balls
Insightful analysis of the Google Motorola acquisition
Technology • August 2011 • Views: 830
I’m fascinated by Dan Lyons’s take on Google acquisition of Motorola today, “Suck on It, AppleSoft — Google Pulls a Rope-a-Dope”:
John Gruber’s take on the Google acquisition of Motorola. Well worth the read.
I think Motorola knew they had Google by the balls. Google needed Motorola’s patent library to defend Android as a whole, Motorola knew it, and they made Google pay and pay handsomely.