Some argue that this deal will drive a wedge between Google and makers of Android/Linux smart phones. Nothing could be further from the truth. This gives everyone in the Android/Linux gang a big brother who carries a big patent-stick.
While Motorola competes with other makers of Android/Linux stuff, Motorola and the others are all part of the Open Handset Alliance and share code and standards. Buying Motorola puts Google into the same position as the other partners as far as having to implement the software in actual gadgets. There could even be an explicit cross-licensing amongst the members of the Alliance. We shall see.
see Preston Gralla – Some say the Google-Motorola deal will help Windows Phone 7. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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He’s not fooling Darren Policella, though. Darren writes:
“I cannot get over how biased Preston Gralla is against Microsoft. Read his archives and it is clear to anyone that its not just about the bits and bytes. He really is rooting against them. Why is this?
We are supposed to believe that this deal is good because Google is too smart to do otherwise? It seems reasonable to me that Google could do this deal with the knowledge that it will cost them some market share but they start to make Apple-like money on the hardware. This will cost Google market share and WP7 will be a beneficiary. It could still be a good deal for Google though.
It would have been nice to see a balanced view of this instead of the continued anti-Microsoft rhetoric that he spews.”
HTC and Samsung stock rose because peole think that other rich guys (like Microsoft) may jump in an overbid to get a phone business, it had nothing to do with Android, #pogson. Nokia went up the most, almost 11%. Can we say that is because they have already thrown in their lot with Microsoft?
Most genuine analysts see the move as bad for Android in connection to other phone makers. The only redeeming thought is that the OS really does not matter much in this market and is not a controlling factor. The main attraction seems to be an Apple logo which trumps anything else.
Preston Gralla anti-Microsoft? That’s a joke right? No, really. Go back and check, what, a few months? No, go back and check his posts a year ago, then another year, and another and another and another… Preston Gralla is as pro-Microsoft as they come. He’s right up there with Ina Fried, Ed Bott, Rob Enderle and the rest of the gang. So why is he posting these “anti-Microsoft” articles? I don’t know. Maybe he sees something wrong in Redmond and he’s pointing it out so it can be corrected maybe. Could be he wants to shake things up with his beloved Microsoft. One thing’s for sure. Some people who lavish praise upon Preston when he reports good things about Microsoft turn on him like a mad dog when he dares to report trouble with Microsoft. Anyone who calls Preston Gralla anti-Microsoft has a revisionist’s agenda, selective memory, or both.
Microsoft supporters have no scruples at all. None.
I noticed that about Preston too. No clue why he’s pulled a 180 like that. Maybe he was offered more money to write an anti-MS column instead of a pro-MS column? Who knows?
Well, I don’t know, #chapman, I am only reporting what Darren Policella had to say. For my money, his opinion is every bit as good as yours and he obviously has a much more eloquent way with words than you do.
Perhaps Preston Gralla was told by Microsoft that his prose and effectiveness were substandard and so he would not be paid any more, as you folk seem to think anyone with a kind word for Microsoft must be. So he is now dissing the notion that non-Apple/RIM smart phone OEMs are not thrilled by one of their key vendors becoming a competitor and actually praise the idea.
Darren Policella is an idiot. He says “look at Preston’s archives” but he doesn’t say how far back. I’ve been reading Preston Gralla’s crap for over six years and no one is more pro-Microsoft than he is.
If you are looking for eloquence Contrarian, why are you reading comments?
IMHO Google is following the saying made famous by Teddy Roosevelt’s use of the old West African proverb: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
Up til now Google has been relatively quiet while dealing with moronic patent lawsuits and extortion from companies like Microsoft and Apple and all their BS.
They just purchased a very big stick.
Simple as that.
Someone is heading for an ass whooping.
A few years ago, Gralla seemed to be in the pocket of M$ but he has mellowed quite a bit since trying GNU/Linux. I would not call him a believer now but he certainly has widened his horizons.
lpbbear The question is who will Google acquire next.
The big question is who is the weakest in the Microsoft IP pool. Is anyone one of them cheap enough for Google to buy out right.
As a sub company motorala still can keep their patents out of the MS pool after Google aquire one from the pool. Ie the pool used to protect Android at upstream source and Motorola being a down stream acquire. So protected from MS attack. But MS not protected from Motorola attack.
Yes Google smart so I would expect some of there staff thinking this way. Patent war can be a disaster.
Microsoft always had the idea that Patents could stop FOSS. The problem here get into a patent war FOSS can wait 20 years for the Patents to expire. Microsoft due to its overheads cannot go 20 years without a pay check.
Nah, I’d see Preston Gralla is simply just writing on Microsoft, from a neutral point of view. He’s neither pro, nor anti Microsoft.
BTW, I smell an all out patent war
“I would not call him a believer now but he certainly has widened his horizons.”
To some degree Preston Gralla deserves the punishment comments he’s getting. But that’s not why I call them out for what they are. It’s the total lack character they represent that turns my stomach. They care nothing for the years of self-degrading service he has given Microsoft. Like all of the Microsoft boosters he has lied, stretched the truth and twisted logic all out of shape just to make Microsoft look good and make him look like a fool. Now that he’s starting to give more balanced reporting his years of service are nothing. That means that during those years when he was being praised by those same people, that meant nothing also. In other words, for bloggers and journalists, Microsoft “followers” cannot be trusted. Only in fair weather.