5 Big Ambitions for Google's Motorola

(TheStreet) -- Beyond the 17,000 reasons Motorola's MMI patent portfolio matters to Google's GOOG Android attack against Apple AAPL, there are other huge motivations behind Google's leap into hardware. For a software shop with fat 64% gross margins, there would seem to be some hesitation to take on the 26% margin drag that Motorola will bring to the combined business. But this margins-be-damned boldness of the move signals some grand aspirations for Google in mobile devices. "Google in the past, has shown a desire to have some say in handsets," Morgan Stanley analysts told clients on a conference call Wednesday. "It's been intriguing to them to push innovation" and close the development process "between hardware and software." Continue reading the article.