Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp

Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by puzzle on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:59PM (#16271164)

I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.

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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by otterley on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:07PM (#16271204)

Why was it designed that way? Can you elaborate?

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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by thomasfortes on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:15PM (#16271239)

I remember reading somewhere that they did not integrate to not alienate other phone manufacturers, they were trying to avoid making the manufacturers feel like second class citizens.

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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by eanzenberg on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:16AM (#16271576)

That strategy worked out really well for them.

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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by samfisher83 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:08AM (#16271841)

It did. The have a majority of the market. They don't make money selling phones. They make money selling ads. As long as all the phones are using google search and ads they do well.

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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by xbmcuser on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:17PM (#16271251)

Simply put so that the oems like Samsung were not allienated into forking Android or going with another OS not that Samsung and Lg didn't try going with another OS.

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Re:Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp by L_Rahman on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:15PM (#16271243)

Presumably to avoid any impression of special collaboration between Google and Motorola that would have spooked the large Android OEMs of the time - Samsung, HTC and LG.

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