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RE: Why?
By robinthakur on 9/13/2011 6:27:45 AM , Rating: 2
You should do, in this case they speak the truth. Obviously Google does make money off of Android through Ad revenue, but whether this offsets the R&D and ongoing costs is another matter. Motorola mobility's acquisition was interpreted by the financial markets as being a very defensive play by Google, and the reason for this is Apple, MS and Oracle, defending their IP's against people incorporating their technology into a competing product. This has happened far too many times in the industry. Anyone remember what happened when the, at the time, dominant 3DFX squared upto Nvidia?
Android's continuing fortunes will be interesting to watch; they really do need to keep the handset manufacturers on side by defending their interests far more than they historically have. It would be much easier say for HTC to just stop proucing it's Android phones and switch to WP7 ones at the moment. It would get Apple off of their ass for one thing.

