What did Obama give to delay this news 24 hours?

[DominionSeraph]

He gave... our FREEDOM!

 

[cubby1223]

Didn't Google JUST buy Motorola?

Google purchased Motorola purely for their patents, to fight Apple with.

Motorola for cell phone manufacturing was and still is a dying company. Whether they sell now or go under within a couple years, does it matter any?

If anyone thought google would prop up Motorola for years to come, you're a fool.

 

[Zorba]

Wow, when Matt thinks your Obama rage is delusional, it is time to see a professional.

I don't see the connection here.

 

[Moonbeam]

Wow, when Matt thinks your Obama rage is delusional, it is time to see a professional.

Hehe. I just got a patch on my head where I thunked it. I just now woke up from being passed out on the floor after readen his post. He don't see the connection. I told him he's a blind so maybe he figured ta try it out.

 

[cubby1223]

This. It's your hero the free market at work! You didn't want dictator Obama to socialize Motorola, did you?
Make sure to vote Republican so Google's CEO pays no taxes on his bonus!

...or you can vote Democrat? You know, the party that gave Motorola an insane tax break?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...keep-state-tax-break-20110619,0,2021941.story

 

[Exophase]

Were people reacting similarly when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division, or when they agreed to buy their x86 server division?

 

[WackyDan]

I worked for Lenovo for four years after they bought IBM's PC division. They took a business unit from IBM and made it profitable in the first year they had it. I was paid over six figures and worked here in the US. The spent $80 million building their campus in Morrisville, NC and built a final assembly and warehousing facility in NC outside Greensboro, NC.

Say what you want about them being a Chinese company, but they were a pleasure to work for, and have invested heavily here in the U.S.

The alternative was IBM exiting the PC business and the US losing all those jobs.

 

[ivwshane]

The bigger story is that this is just another company Google has gobbled up only to do jack shit with. I just hope the makers of nest can make something of themselves once googles done playing with them (ie gutting their IP).

 

[ch33zw1z]

Were people reacting similarly when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division, or when they agreed to buy their x86 server division?

no, because that stuff was/is already manufactured out of the country. I think the thing here is that motorola had manufactuing in the states.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Is this backwards land? It's conservatives who believe that jobs going overseas is a good thing... They call that the free market.

Then it appears the Democrats and Obama are conservatives.

 

[sportage]

I got over charged buying a BigMac from McDonalds yesterday.
Obama didn't warn me about that either. Damn him.
Maybe if we all sit down and write him a nice special letter, he will make it warm up and stop all this crazy snow from happening. Maybe?

 

[Wreckem]

no, because that stuff was/is already manufactured out of the country. I think the thing here is that motorola had manufactuing in the states.

They manufacture a limited number of phones in the US(they only started in 2013). The US built phone failed to meet sales expectations. They initially were hiring upto 2500 people. I am not sure if they ever hit that target number. Motos manufacturing in the US is a very tiny percentage of its manufacturing. Its a relative blip.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Maybe if we all sit down and write him a nice special letter, he will make it warm up and stop all this crazy snow from happening. Maybe?

Heathen! Only GOD controls the weather! He sends bad weather to show He hates the same people I do. You should be burned at the stake for saying that!
And don't you be violatin' muh freedom of speech by sayin' otherwise.

 

[ch33zw1z]

They manufacture a limited number of phones in the US(they only started in 2013). The US built phone failed to meet sales expectations. They initially were hiring upto 2500 people. I am not sure if they ever hit that target number. Motos manufacturing in the US is a very tiny percentage of its manufacturing. Its a relative blip.

Then it doesn't really matter either way.

 

[Vic]

It's all a plot to turn this into a Muslim country!

Allahu Akbar, comrade!

 

[Newell Steamer]

I knew it, Obama is a right-wing sock puppet.

Well, at least the GOP will love him now.

 

[werepossum]

Google purchased Motorola purely for their patents, to fight Apple with.

Motorola for cell phone manufacturing was and still is a dying company. Whether they sell now or go under within a couple years, does it matter any?

If anyone thought google would prop up Motorola for years to come, you're a fool.

Bingo.

This will be the fate of virtually all conventional American companies, stripped of remaining valuable IP and sold off for the name.

 

[fskimospy]

Bingo.

This will be the fate of virtually all conventional American companies, stripped of remaining valuable IP and sold off for the name.

Too bad too, the Moto X is a seriously awesome phone.

 

[werepossum]

Too bad too, the Moto X is a seriously awesome phone.

It will still be on the market, though probably with Lenovo guts. It's just easier to sell Westerners a Motorola branded phone than a Lenovo branded phone.

Interestingly, Lenovo is the same ChiCom company that bought IBM's hard drive division, Thinkpad laptop division, and x86 server division. That good ol' free market/global arbitrage is really working out for us.

 

[Sonikku]

It seems like a pretty massive stretch to go from "American company sells affiliate to Chinese company" to "the President purposely quashed news of this until after the State of the Union address" without a shred of evidence to support it. Why on Earth would you assume that the President of the United States has intimate knowledge of the business decisions of Google?

NSA

Obviously he used his stolen intel to plan his state of the union on a day other than the big announcement so as to spare himself from being overshadowed by the consequences of his overall plan for America.

 

[Rakehellion]

Just announced. Google is selling Motorola to China's Lenovo.



Source: Engadget

Don't tell me Obama didn't know about this off-shoring of jobs to China last night! Bye bye more manufacturing jobs!

Motorola news is somehow Obama's fault?

 

[ivwshane]

Motorola news is somehow Obama's fault?

There is a reason why a "thanks Obama" meme exists and it's because of people like the OP.

 

[Wreckem]

I didn't realize this until a read a news article, but Motorola's "manufacturing" in the US was contracted out to Flextronics. Moto paid for it to be done in the US, they didn't actually manufacture anything themselves.