Motorola's president of Mobile Devices business peaces out

Is that an exodus we smell, or what? Nary 24 hours after Motorola's chief marketing officer decided to start his weekend early by parting ways with the company, along comes word that the (now-former) president of Motorola's Mobile Devices business is doing the same. According to a breaking release from Moto, Stu Reed's departure is "effective immediately," and Greg Brown, company president and CEO, made mention that the outfit "appreciates [his] many contributions and wishes him the best in the future." As of now, there's no word on who's lined up fill Mr. Reed's shoes, but it seems the pool of choices could be dwindling.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 7th 2008 5:57PM]

poor moto. They had a lot of promise when they first entered the industry

[Herbie555 @ Mar 7th 2008 7:32PM]

>poor moto. They had a lot of promise when they first entered the industry

You mean when the company was founded in 1928, or when they basically invented the personal cellular telephone in the 1980s?

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 8th 2008 8:29AM]

Well, I mean they pretty much created the cellular industry. Should have thought my words a bit more. It's a shame though, innit?

[StickDeath-BR @ Mar 10th 2008 3:43PM]

Actually Moto invented cellphone in 70's

[Zak @ Mar 7th 2008 6:00PM]

"Goodbye Moto."

[Fernando @ Mar 7th 2008 6:29PM]

Moto will come back. I'M A BELIEVER!

[Steffen Jobbs @ Mar 7th 2008 10:34PM]

Yeh, I heard the Monkees sang that song. But they weren't singing about Motorola.

Maybe Motorola will rise fromt he ashes, but not as a handset manufacturer. Set-top boxes and WIMAX pushers. What they heck are they gonna do with Symbol Technology, I haven't a clue. I just hope they don't ruin that company of hardworking people with some foolish ideas Moto always happens to come up with.

Everytime I hear Carl Icahn increases his stake in Moto the stock goes up that day then drops down even further the next day. It had no place to go but up the analysts said several months ago, but it's still going down with no end in sight.

[kojo87 @ Mar 7th 2008 6:29PM]

it looks like a small animal died on his head and he decided to leave it there

[AJ in the East Bay @ Mar 7th 2008 6:30PM]

"Peaces Out", ha-ha. I gotta use that one.

[Boynamedsue @ Mar 7th 2008 6:39PM]

just judging by the picture, that guys going pursue a career in ordering hi-balls of top shelf scotch and slapping waitresses on the ass.

[aspiron @ Mar 7th 2008 6:42PM]

You'd think a guy that makes the kind of scratch he does could afford a better looking rug.

[Jason @ Mar 7th 2008 6:44PM]

Whatev. At least this means a whole new naming hierarchy.

Totally mean sidebar: With that much money, you'd think he could afford a decent rug.

Just sayin'

[dcny @ Mar 7th 2008 7:29PM]

if only i had the money i'd buy them how much are they going for 200-300 million cant be more than that

[rektide @ Mar 7th 2008 8:21PM]

all the cool mobile stuff happens at Freescale anyway (the semiconductor buisness motorola spun off).

[Tim @ Mar 7th 2008 8:33PM]

"As of now, there's no word on who's lined up fill Mr. Reed's shoes, but it seems the pool of choices could be dwindling."

Ya know what, let me do it. I don't know crap about building cell phone hardware or writing cell phone software, but have listened to people piss and moan about motorola products for years.

Step One: Make it not suck
Step Two: ?
Step Three: profit!

Its that easy, Motorola. I know that step one is a bitch, but you can't ignore it anymore.

Here is what you do to find the BEST new President of Mobile Devices out there; You walk into any cell phone store, and wait until some dude starts yelling at a sales rep, and throws his phone over the counter. It will be a motorola, I have no doubts(I have had about a dozen phones come flying at me in the last 6 years ,all motorolas). Then, you hire that dude. Thats a guy who can get shit done.

just my two cents.

[JP23 @ Mar 7th 2008 11:01PM]

Stu Reed was a boil on Motorola's ass. I've had more than one interaction with him and all were bad decisions on his part.

So for all the Motorolan's that Stu and Ed cut we say asta la vista asshole!

[mcdj @ Mar 7th 2008 11:48PM]

L8R Chia Stu.

[Tom @ Mar 8th 2008 2:00AM]

MOTO, you bastards. How did you screw up the most popular cellphone of all time!!??!?! Oh a little thing called the RAZR. Makes me want to swear, cuss and take the lord's name in vein.

[ManekiNeko @ Mar 8th 2008 6:40AM]

On the plus side, he's got a promising future as the Enzyte mascot.

[larry Dean @ Mar 9th 2008 3:09AM]

Hey, I've still got my Davy Crockett coonskin cap too!!

[Slick @ Mar 11th 2008 3:00AM]

You know I personally have no problem with Moto's... but I will be damned if Verizon doesn't take a perfectly good, moderately fast phone and absolutely muck it down in a terrible OS. I wish I could tell you exactly how well my KRZR worked, but it takes 5 seconds to load into simple SMS text messages!

[671GD @ Mar 12th 2008 3:17AM]

No no no, he CALLED it quits.

Yea, I know, it's lame...

[Esat @ Mar 12th 2008 3:12PM]

Fact: The user interface on their phones make babies cry.

[Stan Winstone @ Mar 14th 2008 10:49AM]

You have hairpiece on your head!