If you follow Google , you've likely heard about the $2.9 billion sale of its Motorola unit to China-based Lenovo. What was interesting, though not surprising, was that Microsoft was almost instantly linked to the Google-Lenovo deal. With its pending foray into devices and services via the Nokiaacquisition nearing completion, some pundits cite the Motorola deal as a warning for Microsoft.
According to some, the problem the Google-Motorola deal demonstrates is that Microsoft must choose between hardware and software. As Google learned the hard way, tech companies can't be both a hardware and a software provider, so say the pundits. While not completely without merit, the argument loses a bit of its luster when you consider the particulars of both the Google-Motorola and pending Microsoft-Nokia deals.
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