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Re:Apple Said to Acquire Color by r00fus on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:37AM (#4667613)
And Google buying MOTO for $12B is good management? Motorola hasn't really produced anything of value since acquisition for Google aside from the patent pool.

$XXM is a drop in the bucket for Apple - they could fund 10x that without blinking if the patents were deemed to be worth it. They have 10000x that in the bank already.

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Re:Apple Said to Acquire Color by cjensen on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:39PM (#4669538)
Google bought MOTO for the patents. Major portfolios like Motorola's have been going for a lot of money lately. So while I think it was a poor investment, it really depends on whether or not that huge portfolio is useful to Google.

Color has nothing comparable.

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