Analysis: could Google and HTC crack the Apple-Samsung phone duopoly?

collected by :Molly Tony

as declared in But I have 1 hope: which Google's clout and HTC's design could give us something to defy Apple and Samsung. I'm too not telling there are not other phone companies out there, because there obviously are. Google has too failed to make a main dent in the market for hardware in general. As Richard Windsor of Edison Investment study told in a Thursday note to investors, Google's "hardware acquisitions feel like unwanted orphans which have no business being fraction of Google. Google has yet to review any sign which it has learned from the mistakes, however best late than never."

Can Google and HTC crack the Apple-Samsung phone duopoly?

Google is partnering with HTC's Pixel division in an effort to shore up Google hardware. (Reuters)Google late Wednesday reported which it would pay $1.1 bn for employees from HTC's phone unit, prompting waves upon waves of guess about what might come following from this partnership. But I have 1 hope: which Google's clout and HTC's design could give us something to defy Apple and Samsung. As Richard Windsor of Edison Investment study told in a Thursday note to investors, Google's "hardware acquisitions feel like unwanted orphans which have no business being fraction of Google. Google has yet to review any sign which it has learned from the mistakes, however best late than never."

What does Google need with HTC's phone business?

As it stated in But what does Google need with fraction of a phone business? Google isn't buying the whole of HTC, just a relatively big fraction of the Taipei-based company's phone business and not its Vive virtual fact headset business. Google gains half of HTC's study and growth team – about 2,000 people – and a non-exclusive license for HTC's intellectual property, allowing it to take advantage of some of HTC's advances in phone technology. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google's Pixel smartphone, made with HTC. Google followed up with a revised Chromebook Pixel in 2015, however it wasn't until 2016 which the firm made its own Pixel Android smartphone.