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so Motorola bluffed young Google CEO into the deal by threatening to sell to MSFT? Looks like there was some value in having Schmidt as the CEO.

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Not a bluff. Microsoft would gladly have paid billions to increase their ability to extort fees from Android manufacturers, or shut them down altogether like Apple is trying to do.

Or to prevent Google from acquiring MOTO's patents and potentially remove the second largest Android manufacturer.

>Microsoft would gladly have paid billions

even following your logic and supposing that buying MOTO would have helped MSFT achieve these goals - they still haven't paid the billions, or do you suggest that there was a bidding war (and a young cool player just overbid them ? :)

Haven't seen numbers for what Microsoft was willing to pay. How do you know they overbid?

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