I used to work at the ill-fated Motorola. They are an outstanding hardware company. They are an absolute craptastic software company. Manufacturing isn't their forte either but thats another conversation. The general user could never know this but the hardware had plenty of horsepower actually....its just that the software was so poorly architected and bloated with legacy support that the user experience sucked.
The cellphone business is their bread and butter. Public safety equipment or their infrastructure businesses don't have the sales volume to support the current revenue. Their automotive business could've been more profitable had they given it a little TLC.
If they do exit the handset business instead of just selling it off....there are going to be a sh!t load of laid-off folks. Yikes.
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JCA @ Jan 29th 2008 2:21PM
I used to work at the ill-fated Motorola. They are an outstanding hardware company. They are an absolute craptastic software company. Manufacturing isn't their forte either but thats another conversation. The general user could never know this but the hardware had plenty of horsepower actually....its just that the software was so poorly architected and bloated with legacy support that the user experience sucked.
The cellphone business is their bread and butter. Public safety equipment or their infrastructure businesses don't have the sales volume to support the current revenue. Their automotive business could've been more profitable had they given it a little TLC.
If they do exit the handset business instead of just selling it off....there are going to be a sh!t load of laid-off folks. Yikes.