Google buys part of HTC's Vive XR team for $250 million Comments
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Semi related: GSMArena is missing a couple of HTC Wildfire phones released around 2024-2025(?).
Wildfire E4, E5 Plus, E6, E6 plus (there's basically no info on the last one online but i found a render on a South African website)
- pl2rts
- Sk2
USA brands only buy others out and then brag that they have made more billion and trillion dollar companies then Europe that have not done any past 50 years or so
- Hugo
- fCN
mzorrilla, 23 Jan 2025LMAO Google really thinks VR will go main stream?! VR has been the next big thing since even before chatgpt but never materialized. Its like nuclear fusion just on its way since the last 70 years.
- Anonymous
- NgS
Last time Google bought HTC's smartphone division for 1.1 billion now they bought their XR division.. don't know why they don't simply buy them entirely 🤷♂️😂
- potato4k
- XZ8
Meh. Google bought many things, and also dropped many things. Remember how they bought Motorola just for the patents and then sold the brand to Lenovo afterwards? And let's not forget Google's abandoning Android tablet for the 3rd time. $250mil is chump change for Google. I wouldn't really think too much into this.
- DeepIn2U
- EUk
Monopoly much?!
What was the original terms of ownership agreement between Google and HTC's phone division that was allowed by the USA Government? Curious if something expired as this news comes HOT off the press that Samsung is working with Google for their XR Glasses software.
Bye Bye Samsung.
- mk-r
- 6tD
Anonymous, 23 Jan 2025$250 million in cash? That’s a lot of suitcases full of moneythat is lunch money for them
- Anonymous
- 3SL
$250 million in cash? That’s a lot of suitcases full of money
- Anonymous
- Hrx
this could be a good ending for htc
- Anton el PAPI
- CH9
astolfo, 23 Jan 2025At this point, HTC might as well sell themselves out to Google and just become another Google ... moreThey will never recover... HTC was already more than dead by 2016... dying
- Darth Caesium
- gAp
Bennis, 23 Jan 2025"We didn't want to train our own people to do what we want so we just bought guys th... moreThis used to be extremely difficult to do, and then the Reagan administration re-interpreted the Sherman Laws to make antitrust law much more relaxed. What a surprise that buying up your competition has become so commonplace since then.
- astolfo
- GBh
At this point, HTC might as well sell themselves out to Google and just become another Google Office. It's ridiculous how they are willing to let their expertise just go like nothing.
They learned nothing when they sold most of their phones team back in 2017, which caused a huge dropdown in terms of phone design and software support. The poor U12+ didnt even got Android 10 update, which was shameful considering the flagship it was at the time.
That was their turning point, and they havent recovered since.
- PorkHotdog
- pGV
Google should have just bought all of HTC back in the first Pixel era. I mean what's left anymore?
- Anonymous
- raQ
Just buy your competition so that there is no competion in market.
- Bennis
- yi{
"We didn't want to train our own people to do what we want so we just bought guys that already know what to do"
- Anonymous
- U@E
Now, HTC will be completely killed.
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