[ale] What did we want?

[Edward Holcroft]

lol ... last weekend I upgraded my wife and I to Moto X's for the sole
reason that I wanted to support an American company that wasn't Apple!

ed


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> Speaking of Google directly sold...
>
> Google is selling the Motorola mobility with around 2000 patents to Lenovo
> according to a story I saw yesterday or the day before.   The story said
> that Google is actually losing money because they're selling it and have
> sold another piece of Motorola previously and the prices for those 2 sales
> + the estimated value of the other 16,000 motorola patents they are keeping
> doesn't add up to what they originally paid for all of Motorola to get
> those patents.
>
> It also mentions that Lenovo is already a large smartphone player outside
> the US and has been looking for a way to jump into the US market so this
> fits them well.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JD
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 1:38 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] What did we want?
>
>
> On 01/31/2014 12:45 PM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > Just in the spirit of keeping the discussion rolling, I will note that
> actually
> > Apple has done a MUCH BETTER job of providing security updates than
> Android.
> > This is likely more the fault of phone carriers than Google.
> >
> > The list of currently running Android phones which have no security
> updates, or
> > any android updates at all, is rather large, i.e. pretty much all of
> them.   It
> > seems the carriers lose interest in providing updates after the phone is
> sold.
> >
> > According to the chart I saw, pretty much all the iphone models
> > can/are updated.  Granted, there aren't as many models.
>
> Let me assure you that on directly Google-sold android devices, they have
> new releases every few months AND push them out - sometimes more often than
> I'd like.
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