Ron Garriques is out at Motorola
By Peter Rojas 
posted Feb 16th 2007 2:22PM
posted Feb 16th 2007 2:22PM
We don't know whether he was pushed out or left of his own accord, but the news has just hit the wires that Ron Garriques is out as the head of Motorola's mobile devices business. It's not totally shocking to see a change of leadership, Moto's cellphone unit has definitely been through some rough times lately. Profits have fallen as the company struggles to followup the success of the RAZR and they recently announced that they were laying off 3500 employees. Whatever happens, hopefully whoever succeeds him (Ray Roman, senior vice president, global sales, and Terry Vega, senior vice president, global devices, are filling in for now) will recognize that the cellphone game is way too competitive these days to think that rolling out the RAZR in new colors is an acceptable substitute for innovation.UPDATE: He's off to Dell to head up their Global Consumer Group.
HAHAH.
I thought you guys ment "out".. as in gay.
Funny.
Knowing Motorola, they'll replace him with a dude who looks and acts exactly the same, but wears a different coloured suit and is tall and thin rather than wide and thin.
Oh and he'll cost a lot more.
I think it's just cruel to represent him using this obviously Power Goo-ed image.
The headline should be "in at Dell" (see Wall Street Journal) rather than "out at Motorola".
Does this mean we will soon see Dell roll out laptops in new colors, like pink? Oh wait, that was already done a decade ago. I thought Dell was already screwed enough...
Note to new guy; bring back the StarTac.
That background in the picture is freakin sweet!!!