Someone has made a terrible deal, and the other an awesome deal. But we will only be certain in one year.
It is impossible something like this be good to both, losing 100 people that have worked on the best project that the company has worked in the last years.
Or overpaid for just some people that are not soo great, as they thought.
Google buys HTC's Pixel team, license to HTC's IP, and a RF lab (Subsidiary of HTC) for 1.1 billion USD.