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Five Possible Reactions to Google-Motorola Merger

Posted By Minda Zetlin On August 18, 2011 @ 11:26 am In Hardware,Smartphones and PDAs,Tablets and eReaders,Telecom and Wireless | No Comments

No question: Google’s acquisition of Motorola ^[1] will shake up the mobile landscape. But what exactly will the post-shakeup landscape look like? CNET‘s Marguerite Reardon has come up with five possible scenarios ^[2], some of them pretty interesting, as to how the rest of the market might respond.

Among the possibilities:

Samsung and HTC release Windows 7 devices to lessen their dependence on Android;
Amazon scraps plans to build an Android tablet and turns to WebOS instead;
Sony-Ericsson is forced by investors to sell its patents.

Get the full list at CNET ^[2].

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[1] acquisition of Motorola: http://technology.inc.com/2011/08/15/google-buys-motorola-for-12-5-billion/

[2] five possible scenarios: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20093279-266/five-possible-responses-to-the-google-motorola-merger/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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