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Will Androids rule the world?
Who can stop the Android juggernaut? Forced to react against Apple and Microsoft in a patent war, Google acquired
Motorola Mobility which holds over 17,000 patents for $12.5 billion. If the acquisition is approved, Google will
not only be a software company, but a manufacturer of mobile phones and tablets.
WORLDWIDE
MARKETSHARE
FOR SMARTPHONES
2nd QUARTER
2010
2
nd
QUARTER
2011
The acquisition puts more pressure
on BlackBerry maker Research In
Motion, which may itself be
purchased by Microsoft or another
company.
Google is suddenly competing
with its partners LG, HTC and
Samsung Electronics that use the
Android operating system distribu-
ted for free by Google.
GOOGLES PARTNERS
ARE WORRIED
THE PRESSURE MOUNTS ON RIM
43.4%
11.7%
18.7%
17.2%
14.1%
40.9%
18.2%
22.1%
Bada
1.9%
Windows
Phone
1.6%
Windows Phone
4.9%
Other
1.0%
Bada
0.9%
Others
3.2%
ONLY TWO YEARS
AGO, ERIC SCHMIDT,
EX-CEO OF GOOGLE,
SAT ON APPLES
BOARD OF DIREC-
TORS. HE WAS ASKED
TO RESIGN WHEN IT
BECAME CLEAR HE
WAS COLLECTING
INFORMATION ON
THE IPHONE.
The sale of Nortel Networks
started a patent war
2008: The Canadian telecom-
munications manufacturer
declares bankruptcy.
July 2011: Apple and Microsoft lead a
consortium to buy about 6,000 patents
from Nortel Networks for $4.5 billion.
Google, the big loser in the bidding,
criticizes the agreement as an anticom-
petitive strategy.
Yesterday: Google buys
Motorola Mobility which holds
more than 17,000 patents.
Aug. 2011: Google
acquires more than
1,000 patents from IBM.
Sources: gartner.com; NewYork Times; Wall Street Journal; Businessmobile.fr; seatllepi.com SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BYJUSTIN STAHLMAN/QMI AGENCY
The mobile operating system Symbian OS is outda-
ted, and Nokia has made a deal with Microsoft that
will put the struggling Windows Phone operating system
(1.6% of global market share) on Nokia phones.
NOKIA BETS EVERYTHING ON MICROSOFT