Thread: Google shares drop 4% after Motorola earnings warning

Google is in the process of buying Motorola for $12.5 billion. The merger will allow Google to develop software and hardware to challenge the Apple iPhone and Ipad.

Google shares slide after Motorola earnings warning - Yahoo! Finance

Hmmmm...so when do you think we'll see the "Facebook Phone" ???

Originally Posted by javanx3d

Hmmmm...so when do you think we'll see the "Facebook Phone" ???

I don't know. The rule of thumb is that there's more money to be made in software than hardware. Microsoft let IBM, Packard Bell, and Digital build the computers and Microsoft supplied the Dos/Windows.

It seems to me that Google's money would be better spent in reinventing search.