Anti-Google camp buys Nortel patents

To win you need to secure an alliance that is stronger than the opposition’s. You do not go into battle alone and expect to win. Google did great job securing alliance with OEMs and telecoms to make Android a huge success measured by market share.

Google, the late but very successful entrant into the mobile space, is finding itself lacking intellectual property. Android vendors, like HTC, are forced to pay $5 per phone to early entrants, like Microsoft, to resolve patent issues patents. Microsoft is negotiating with Samsung to receive $15 from each Android phone sold and Google revenue from Android OS is ZERO.

Google bid publicly 0.9 billion for bankrupt Nortel 6000 patents and just recently was outbid but a newly formed alliance of Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony, EMC, Ericsson. The price is whooping 4.5 billion.