Motorola's president of Mobile Devices business peaces out
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 7th 2008 5:49PM
posted Mar 7th 2008 5:49PM
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.
poor moto. They had a lot of promise when they first entered the industry
>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?
Well, I mean they pretty much created the cellular industry. Should have thought my words a bit more. It's a shame though, innit?
Actually Moto invented cellphone in 70's
"Goodbye Moto."
Moto will come back. I'M A BELIEVER!
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.
it looks like a small animal died on his head and he decided to leave it there
"Peaces Out", ha-ha. I gotta use that one.
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.
You'd think a guy that makes the kind of scratch he does could afford a better looking rug.
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'
You have hairpiece on your head!
if only i had the money i'd buy them how much are they going for 200-300 million cant be more than that
all the cool mobile stuff happens at Freescale anyway (the semiconductor buisness motorola spun off).
"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.
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!
L8R Chia Stu.
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.
On the plus side, he's got a promising future as the Enzyte mascot.
Hey, I've still got my Davy Crockett coonskin cap too!!
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!
No no no, he CALLED it quits.
Yea, I know, it's lame...
Fact: The user interface on their phones make babies cry.