Hard as it is, though, that's reality in tech today. And Google's announcement of layoffs at its Motorola Mobility subsidiary - it bought the unit for an eye-popping $12.5 billion last August - is hardly a surprise. The MOTO unit has been under siege for years, with accumulating losses and barely-there market share that literally compelled Google to do something. Face it, when you make a $12.5 billion bet, there's got to be a payoff somewhere.
I wrote this article for Yahoo! Canada Finance: Google’s Motorola layoffs signal the future of hardware
I'll be on-air live with CTV News Channel (web, Twitter) just after 3:30 p.m. Eastern today, and will post a link to the video afterward.
Update: I spoke with Todd Van Der Heyden about this, but I can't seem to find the video online. Instead, here's a link to an interview I did last week with CTV News Channel's Jacqueline Milczarek and Dan Matheson about Apple's and Google's increasingly nasty relationship (video here).
Update: I spoke with Todd Van Der Heyden about this, but I can't seem to find the video online. Instead, here's a link to an interview I did last week with CTV News Channel's Jacqueline Milczarek and Dan Matheson about Apple's and Google's increasingly nasty relationship (video here).
Your turn: Would you buy a Google-branded smartphone or tablet?
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I'm actually considering getting a Nexus 7 tablet when I have some spare cash and I'd like my next phone to be whichever Nexus version is around at the time. I have never been a big personal fan of Apple OS design, although I have no problems admitting that's just preference. They're slick (if overpriced) devices.
I'm considering buying once of those walkie talkie phones some day, Carmi.
Maybe I should just start with a plain old sell phone?
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I don't have a tablet. I really like my iPhone.
At this point - I don't think I'd buy a Google phone or tablet. Their search engine and Gmail - phenomenal, of course. But their attempts at social networking have been really disastrous IMO.
I use a Mac laptop, so I've kind of converted to all things Apple. I didn't mean to. It just happened. And then when I went into the Apple store for help, the customer service was beyond anything I had ever experienced in customer service. And that gets BIG POINTS from me.
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