{"id":40914,"date":"2014-01-29T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/google-is-selling-motorola.html"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:06:06","slug":"google-is-selling-motorola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/google-is-selling-motorola.html","title":{"rendered":"Google is … selling Motorola?"},"content":{"rendered":"
That seems kind of crazy. I'm pretty sure there's a reason — Google does zany things, and it has gazillions to throw around, but you don't just casually make a decision like this. I'm finding the link to their recent discussions with Samsung to be somewhat persuasive — "We'll stop screwing with the interface, you stop competing with our hardware."<\/p>\n

That said, I don't think this changes my mind about the Moto X still being on the short list for my next phone (in a month or two). \u00a0There's a lot of crazy in the comments on this article, but I had a Lenovo laptop for some time and never had a problem with it.<\/p>\n

I look forward to reading more analysis on this one.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Report: Google Is Selling Motorola to Lenovo for $3 Billion<\/a>
\n The New York Times is reporting that Google will sell its Mobility unit to Lenovo for $3 billion. Details are thin, but the Times says a deal should be announced shortly.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That seems kind of crazy. I'm pretty sure there's a reason — Google does zany things, and it has gazillions to throw around, but you don't just casually make a decision like this. I'm finding the link to their recent discussions with Samsung to be somewhat persuasive — "We'll stop screwing with the interface, you … Continue reading “Google is … selling Motorola?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128303,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/the-only-thing-that-can-stop-a-crazy-with-a-gun-is-um-no-more-crazy.html","url_meta":{"origin":40914,"position":0},"title":"The only thing that can stop a Crazy with a Gun is … um … no more Crazy!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Oct-15 11:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeb! has revealed his secret plan to stop mass killings: http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/10\/bang-bang-crazy-two-in-bush.htmlThe cause of all this gun violence is that crazy people can get guns! 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