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Google bought Motorola for more than just it’s pretty patents

September 3rd, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

The Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, said recently that Google purchase of Motorala for $12.5 billion dollars wasn’t solely for the claim to patents that Motorala had but all to acquire the products they make as well. This no doubt is aimed at their biggest competition Apple who if you didn’t know already makes this device called the iPhone. I don’t know maybe you have heard of it. Though with this acquisition they now have over 17,000 patents that can help protect the Android OS. Although the one thing people are still not talking about mainstream at least is what this purchase could do for GoogleTV. I mean motorola does make up about 80% of the Cable/DVR box market these days, wonder if that was extra motivation. Just saying!

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