XBOX TALKING ABOUT BEING BANNED IN U.S.?

XGC ArchKing

XGC ArchKing

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vBlite said:
Depends on the market in which you are talking about. In certain markets Motorola will be much larger than MS. Also you have to consider intellectual property owned by each of the firms so for example MS is most likely minuscule compared to Motorola in the mobile devices market.
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I'm willing to bet that if Microsoft wanted to, it could extend its market reach and make mobile phones and bring in annual revenue greater than Motorola. This whole topic about the 360 getting banned is crazy. There is no way Microsoft would let that happen. The only outcomes I can see of this is that Motorola will drop the lawsuit, or Microsoft will just settle and it'll be over with.
 
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The Chosen One

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XGC ArchKing said:
I'm willing to bet that if Microsoft wanted to, it could extend its market reach and make mobile phones and bring in annual revenue greater than Motorola.
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Revenues maybe, but that would require a massive amount of finance, resources and investment to compete with Motorola. You have to remember that it is a market which Motorola has operated in for a long time and invested a heck of a lot of money into. They will also have a lot of intellectual property (i.e patents) which would hinder any advances into the market from MS and vastly increase their costs. Added to that Motorola has the infrastructure in place where as MS don't.

Due to the costs involved to enter such a competitive market and get everything in place I somehow doubt MS would make any return on the amount they would have to invest anytime soon. Personally I would think it would take over a decade and even then I would not be convinced they would have made a return.

Anyone that thinks there is no chance that anything will come of this obviously hasn't paid attention to what has been happening between Samsung and Apple over the last few years in court rooms around the world, which resulted in the banning of various products in certain countries as well as various fines.
 
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Blklistsniper

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accord to some presses judge sided with motorola and recommending to ITC that xbox be banned without option to fix and granting motorola 2.5% of revenue and motorola wanting that overturned to a 100% back dated to xbox orginal date
 
XGC ArchKing

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Sounds like Motorola is getting greedy. What technology exactly is in the xbox that they think they own?

@vBlite, What your saying is completely true. Motorola has been in the mobile phone market for a long time, and they do have more experience than Microsoft because of it. I was just stating that Microsoft could beat them in revenues, yes it would take a vast amount of finance and investments to come out with a state of the art phone, and you can't really build structures on street corners like At&t and T-mobile have so they would need to sell them like boost mobile phones, no contracts. Pay a low balance rate for service, and that would take many years to make a return on that investment.
 
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Inked Ivy

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If anything does amount from this it could also encourage MS to release their next console sooner than expected. I highly doubt they'd make the mistake of including hardware that runs the risk of this happening again.
 
KoG Jehuty

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Inked Ivy said:
If anything does amount from this it could also encourage MS to release their next console sooner than expected. I highly doubt they'd make the mistake of including hardware that runs the risk of this happening again.
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Hehe I agree, let this be a lesson to every major company.
 
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I doubt it will happen. If it were even a possibility MS wouldn't be spending millions on the advertising that are in the works for the new console and MS releases in the US.
 
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