00:00Now, to make matters worse, there was a patent war.
00:02Samsung, Apple, Google, and Microsoft were suing each other left and right, and Motorola
00:07found themselves in the middle.
00:08Apple was suing them for infringing on their patents.
00:11Samsung was suing them because of their ownership stake in Microsoft.
00:14Motorola tried to fight back, but their patents were nothing compared to Apple's.
00:19This crushed Motorola, and they ended up splitting into two companies.
00:22One of the companies focused on the enterprise business, and the other focused on mobile
00:26devices.
00:26This didn't really work out though, because the enterprise business wasn't growing fast
00:30enough, and the mobile device business was hemorrhaging money.
00:33After a few years of trying to stay afloat, they gave up, and sold the enterprise business
00:37to Zebra Technologies, for $3.75 billion, and sold the mobile device business to Lenovo,
00:43for $2.91 billion.
00:45And that brings us to where we are today.
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