My opinion (ahem) is that this is boom or bust.
I think Googles new, young CEO is going to need all the help he can get.
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Hardware sales are a brutally competitive business, with a core competency entirely different from Google's. Hardware manufacturing and sales are about supply chains, parts, factories, physical distribution, and consumer marketing--all things that Google has little or no experience with. And Motorola itself is not exactly knocking the cover off the ball these days in all these areas.
Additionally, Google just added 19,000 new employees. 19,000! Google itself only has 29,000. Google just increased the size of itself by 60%--in a company in which culture is crucial. Does Google really have the management in place to manage that?
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