Let's just sum up just how hard Google outplayed Apple and Google with Motorola Mobility acquisition:
* Feigned interest in the Nortel patent with joke bids
* Apple and Microsoft fell for the bait and overpayed for Nortel's patents
* Meanwhile Google is off negotiating with Motorola for the purchase of their mobile/settop box/IPTV division
* Apple and Microsoft and their proxies are plastering the Net with justification for using patents as a weapon against the Android Juggernaut
* Google drops the Motorola Mobility purchase bomb
* Google now owns the largest mobile patent war chest with some 17,000 patents and and additional 7,500 pending
* Apple and Microsoft have now made the case for Google to go after their each of their products without mercy with their newly acquired massive patent war chest
An Epic Win for Google.
Motorola Mobile has some 3 billion in cash, so the actual purchase price is around 9.5 billion for Google. The price per patent is an absolute steal compared to the money Apple and Microsoft were tricked into spending for the less valuable Nortel patents.
And for a cherry on top of this epic win for Google, they get Motorola's set top box and IPTV products and capabilities as a bonus.
You can tell just how major this win for Google is by just how desperate the spin from the Apple and Microsoft proxies in the press are pumping out.