The Lonious Monk
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longmeat;4463491 said:^^^google didn't purchase Motorola, they bought their patents so they wouldn't get sued. Which is why Samsung made the last Nexus phone instead of Google. Google has no desire to get into the hardware market. They were just tired of them and their partners getting sued every time they released a phone.
Google did buy Motorola. The reason they bought them was so that they could have their patents. They had to make that clear because they had a lot of people afraid that they were going to make the Android OS exclusive to Motorola phones. But the terms of the deal were that they couldn't do that for at least 5 years.