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Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)Posted Aug 19, 2011 21:39 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)Parent article: Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica)
It's great to hear the punditry from all those supposedly well-informed commentators who didn't manage to see this deal coming about what people should now expect Google to do, especially when a lot of the punditry recycles talking points from various outmanoeuvred competitors. And Stephen Elop is quite possibly the last person who should be giving lectures about strategy right now, at least if the strategy involves maintaining a company's viability and independence.
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Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 19, 2011 22:48 UTC (Fri) by ian00 (guest, #55476) [Link]
It is completely standard for information on mergers/aquisitions to be kept very secret or very public across all industries for several reasons including insider trading laws. I'm sure 99.9% of google employees had no idea until the public announcement. However, I agree that the quality of punditry is quite dubious, partly because it is so influenced by competitors talking points.
Android OEMs should hear Microsoft, Nokia out on Google-Motorola combo (ars technica) Posted Aug 19, 2011 23:40 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
To clarify, by "well-informed" I mean informed to a high enough degree, having observed the industry carefully, to generally be able to make educated guesses about what organisations will do next without having insiders whisper top-secret board-level plans in their ears.
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