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clearly these Motorola has some stellar engineers yeah yo and RF engineers are really really good and hard to find so whether or not they'll be able to keep them who knows but Motorola especially where these engineers are located they they probably like the idea of working for google certainly the free food I mean right now to have a paid cafeteria and also they get paid a third west on average than Google engineers and owning google stock versus ordering Motorola stock options clear you would c
as a Google shareholder i hate it i mean you know you're growing my head count by thirty percent you're adding a bunch of expensive engineers doing a hardware that's arguably antithetical to the whole android business model and look what's happened to google share price this week I mean not surprisingly it's actually falling faster than its peers have in the face of the declining market and given this acquisition because it looks confused it looks like a jumble it looks like it's actually in som
everything else is a distraction and an ex post explanation in the hardware the home video stuff the server technology none of that stuff lost ten minutes past the deal closing this is all about patents
the only way to even begin to try to rationalize the price that Google paper mm I from Motorola was on a per patent basis and on that basis you know it was less than the nortel the winning nortel bid for the the portfolio of Norton nortel package that recently went out so you know on that basis it was arguably somewhat cheaper
this was all about the patents obviously