> They’re a leading home device maker, and that’s also a big opportunity,” Google CEO Larry Page said of Motorola on Monday. “We’re working with them in the industry to really accelerate innovation. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/15/motorola_purchase_may_bolster_google_tv_in_bid_to_unseat_apple_tv.html)By “accelerate innovation” Page means shoving free Google TV-enabled Motorola set-top boxes down the throats of consumers via the cable companies, and then claiming victory in market share over Apple. They…

> The high-level talks between Google and Motorola started about five weeks ago. Google CEO Larry Page and Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha were talking directly, and only a handful of executives were brought into discussions. Our sources suggest that Android co-founder Andy Rubin was brought into the talks only very recently. via [gigaom.com](http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/)Like I said earlier, this move was more about defense than any sort of long-term mastermind plan, as suggested by the delusional Dan Lyons. The short span of time suggests…

> And today it all makes sense. Google just sandbagged its rivals. The whole thing was a rope-a-dope maneuver. Google never cared about the Nortel patents. It just wanted to drive up the price so that AppleSoft (those happy new bedmates) would overpay. Today, with the Motorola deal, Google picks up nearly three times as many patents as AppleSoft got from Novell and Nortel. More important, Google just raised the stakes in a huge way for anyone who wants to stay in the smartphone market. > > Better yet, Google got its rivals…

> But these are just personal observations and opinions. Do keep in mind that Google+ isn’t even in public beta yet. I love it, but this might even be partly due to the intensely clubby nature of this highly-restricted invite-only test community. It’s all nerds, or first-circle nerd associates. At this early, limited stage, it’s like Google+ is a social networking service where they won’t let you sign in until you’ve correctly answered a 10-item lightning round quiz of Doctor Who, Star Wars, New Gods, and…

> ### > > [Amazon & Google play into Apple’s hands with their early, incomplete music stores](http://musically.com/blog/2011/05/11/google-and-amazons-cloud-lockers-may-play-into-apples-hands/) > > Musically: > > > Apple likes to be late, and better. So by racing to market without licences, have Google and Amazon simply set their services up as the Creative Nomad jukeboxes of the cloud music age? Ironically, by launching without deals from labels, both companies may have given Apple the leverage it needs to strike the very licensing deals that will help its cloud service blow them out of the water.…