Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility

Re:Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility by 10feet on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @06:49PM (#7148037)

> Contrary to gloating from Apple fans

This isn't necessary, and cheapens a good point.

> This deal now creates a solid competitor to Samsung.

Samsung has solid competitors with strong global brands. You have Sony, which has been around for a long time. You also have LG, HTC, and a lot of other lesser known brands. You have Amazon, BN in the Tablet space.

Not sure what the cheap shots at Apple and Apple fans have to do with this discussion.

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Re:Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility by michaelcampbell on Thursday January 30, 2014 @08:32AM (#7150544)

Then maybe you could have just ignored it; you effectively Streisand Effected it for me with 2 of your 3 paragraphs devoted to that.

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Re:Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility by vidarh on Thursday January 30, 2014 @08:36AM (#7150558)

Some quick searches indicates that Huawei and LG have ~4-5% of the market each, and Sony and HTC around 7% or so each.

Meanwhile Samsung is above 30%

Motorola + Lenovo has a shot at 11%-12%.

So no, Samsung doesn't really have any really solid competitors. Especially given that most of the above are not making much - if any - money on their Android phones at the moment.

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Re:Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility by nb1981 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:41AM (#7149780)

Everything has to be partisan now. Shame.

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