Moto total cost $12.5B to Goog in 2011:
- $3.2B Moto's 2011 cash
- $2.4B Moto's 2011 deferred tax assets
- $2.35B Moto's Set-top-box business sold in 2012
- $75M Moto's factories business sold in 2013 (incl 7K factory employees)
- $2.91B Moto's Mobility business sold in 2014
Thus Moto's remaining assets including patents, buildings
(in Chicago and elsewhere), probably a good part of the
12K employees cost Goog $1.56B
Doing that, Goog may have well protected and guided the
Android ecosystem along in the past couple years.
This looks more clear. They pretty much got everything back except the tax liability payment plus the valuable patents remained. Not a bad deal. And I think it's a positive move to put the hardware design and manufacturing back to the hardware company to compete in that market sector. The only sad thing is Android's future.
>> Nicolas Charbonnier