(2011-08-15) Google Buys Motorola Mobility

Google is buying Motorola's Mobility business. It sounds like this is mainly part of the Patent war around Android. Do they really want to own a hardware business? If not, what will they do about that? Albert Wenger agrees they will probably dump the hardware business (though, if Patent-s are so key in this industry, who would buy a hardware business with no patents?), and agrees that Jean Louis Gassee's parallel idea of Apple Computer buying a TelCo would be horrible.