[ale] What did we want?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Speaking of Google directly sold...

Google is selling the Motorola mobility with around 2000 patents to Lenovo according to a story I saw yesterday or the day before.   The story said that Google is actually losing money because they're selling it and have sold another piece of Motorola previously and the prices for those 2 sales + the estimated value of the other 16,000 motorola patents they are keeping doesn't add up to what they originally paid for all of Motorola to get those patents.

It also mentions that Lenovo is already a large smartphone player outside the US and has been looking for a way to jump into the US market so this fits them well.






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 1:38 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] What did we want?


On 01/31/2014 12:45 PM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Just in the spirit of keeping the discussion rolling, I will note that actually
> Apple has done a MUCH BETTER job of providing security updates than Android.
> This is likely more the fault of phone carriers than Google.
>
> The list of currently running Android phones which have no security updates, or
> any android updates at all, is rather large, i.e. pretty much all of them.   It
> seems the carriers lose interest in providing updates after the phone is sold.
>
> According to the chart I saw, pretty much all the iphone models
> can/are updated.  Granted, there aren't as many models.

Let me assure you that on directly Google-sold android devices, they have new releases every few months AND push them out - sometimes more often than I'd like.
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