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Google Paying $12.5 Billion for Motorola
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Internet giant purchases hardware maker
- Duration 1:32
- Date Aug 16, 2011
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By buying electronic gadget maker Motorola mobility.
-- goes from a strictly software based company to -- with an ability to manufacture hardware the very thing that made apple the most valuable company on earth.
This could put them in a dominant position or at least dominant with the exception of apple could also pave the way for fewer legal conflicts with competitors of Google's Android operating system.
This whole deal -- about intellectual property it's about.
Lawsuits over patents related to Smartphone technology they're picking up 151000 patents which helps protect them.
Against patent litigation by apple and Microsoft and other companies for consumers.
More battery life better reception faster mobile broadband service so yeah I think it's going to show up.
On the shelves and in the year were to get thing as an apparently.
Maybe lower the prices -- smart.
But I'm not positive.
One man worries about his privacy.
They already have my name and I went six -- quite really not been going my my phone records voicemail one calling and ended up possibilities out there and I'd be I'd.
-- -- -- -- -- The current apple users will be hard to conveyance.
I think they're gonna have to sell apple users.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- and it's a great job at their superiors and better and very -- Nonetheless.
Apple really has -- look over its shoulder Google is a very big.
Company it's a juggernaut and it right -- he'll.