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christopher126 said:

talexy said:

I think Apple as an environmental conscious company should stay away from making leather goods. 

Good point! Perhaps one day we can get away from 'peeling' cows.

ronn said:

sog35 said:

ronn said:

DanielEran said:

HTC was rapidly failing as a company, despite building Google's Pixel phones. Look what Google did with Nest, let alone Motorola. How is Samsung--already on edge with Google--going to want Google in control of Android? How is Google going to be better at hardware now that its original Andy Rubin Android team left for Essential? Motorola's patents didn't do anything for Google, regardless of what BGR claims was "not so bad". For less than $13 billion Google should have been able to build a hardware line from scratch, along with a silicon empire, a retail empire, an AR platform and a fashion headphones business. Apple did!

I think everyone is looking at this short-term. Google is obviously looking at this long-term. HTC was/is committed to probably at least the next two iterations of the Pixel line. So Google had to step in and buy the hardware division. For them the $1.1B sum is paltry and may even be less that what they would have eventually spent taking their business to another shop over the next couple years to continue the Pixel line (and possibly other hardware).

Spend $1 billion to sell 10,000 phones?  

And that doesn't even count all the salaries you need to pay these people.

Another loser deal just like Moto.  Google will spend billions to release a phone that sells 10,000 units a month.

You contradict yourself with sales numbers above. I'll assume you omitted "a month" for the first figure and claim they sell just 10K/month. That would be totally off as the most pessimistic guesstimate is that Google sold at least a million Pixels in the first 8 months. Other more optimistic figures believe Verizon alone sold over a million Pixels since it first went on sale. So that would mean more than 10K Pixels per week.

Again, this purchase will probably be cheaper in the long run for Google than starting all over again with another manufacturer. Especially as they will be expanding from just the Pixel line of phones.

lkrupp said:

gatorguy said:

Rayz2016 said:

Paging GoogleGospelGuy, paging GoogleGospelGuy…

Asking me for my opinion by using my forum name would be preferred. Please avoid trollish "calling LOL-I-thought-of-a-funny-name-for-you har har" behaviour meant to elicit a negative response. We're equally entitled as long-term contributing members of the AI community, and really should make at least a show of effort at respecting each other.

So in the future when you'd like to hear my opinion on something please try to do so without resorting to what is essentially juvenile name-calling. It comes off as both bumptious and uncultivated whether it's done by a fellow forum member or a head of state, and I'm pretty certain that's not the perception you would wish to leave.

Funny though, how you only show up and post when Google is mentioned, and it’s always in defense or promotion of Google. Maybe you should change your user name to GoogleEvangelist then as it would more accurately describe your participation in these forums.