Steve will probably buy it for revenge when they made him the stupid and limited ROKR, and then send every moto employee to China to work sleepless nights to make him iphones :P
Steve Jobs isn't the answer. I hope you're being facetious. The guy is already the visionary for one overwhelmingly successful company with a dominating mobile handset, doing another would only dilute that vision.
I do agree, however, that Motorola does need its own equivalent of a Steve Jobs. That letter was refreshing and expository, and explains what I think a lot of people have had on their minds; how Motorola could hit a brick wall after the success of the RAZR.
It's pretty obvious now that the company sat on its collective ass selling the damn product forever until nobody cared anymore. Then they did nothing about it. Get an engineer into the CEO position, get a marketing person into CEO, get ANYONE who gives a damn or knows a thing about mobile products. Hell, get Ryan Block over there.
What's ironic is that from the sound of this letter, a majority of Engadget and Engadget Mobile readers are probably more qualified to be CEO than Greg "Kill Moto Dead" Brown.
Yeah the comment was a joke but yes someone equivalent to Steve Jobs. I think the company just milked all its products and is now trying to bang all the money out of the company. Its always stupid people that make big decisions.
If this were the 90's Jobs couldn't take over. He was WAY too busy running his company into the ground. Until Jonathan Ive(designer of iMac, iPod) and his design team came and pulled his smug ass out of the fire. Apple is what it is today not because of Steve Jobs, but in spite of Steve Jobs.
@Neil: I bet Apple wanted the ROKR to succeed as much as anyone - it was their first iPhone and they thought they could do it with Motorola. Turned out Moto insisted on producing a turd - the looks of the ROKR alone should make it perfectly clear that Apple had no influence on this design. Apple's revenge was to introduce the ROKR at the same time as the iPod nano. It was a bit cheeky in a "see that's what the device of the future should look like"-way but honestly also the only way to prevent a PR disaster.
@brian f: Not sure what you mean by your comment-Apple? Remember that Apple was headed for the toilet *before* Jobs came back, it was Jobs that created the iMac, Jobs that cannibalized the corpse of NeXTStep to make OS X, Jobs who showed the industry that design matters. It was the old-line business dudes who messed Apple up, and it looks like the same thing is happening at Motorola. Years of the same tired design with minor variations-it's a testament to the original RAZR that they still have a handset business to sell.
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Max Savin @ Mar 26th 2008 1:13PM
We need Steve Jobs to take over.
Crayola @ Mar 26th 2008 1:15PM
No! We need Icahn on board, he has been trying to get rid of that shitty CEO all along. I doubt he is out to destroy the value of his shareholding.
CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 26th 2008 1:19PM
Steve will probably buy it for revenge when they made him the stupid and limited ROKR, and then send every moto employee to China to work sleepless nights to make him iphones :P
Neil @ Mar 26th 2008 1:24PM
@CUBSWILLWIN
What are you talking about? Revenge? Steve is the one that forced Motorola to make the Rokr with the limitations.
nerdtalker @ Mar 26th 2008 1:33PM
Steve Jobs isn't the answer. I hope you're being facetious. The guy is already the visionary for one overwhelmingly successful company with a dominating mobile handset, doing another would only dilute that vision.
I do agree, however, that Motorola does need its own equivalent of a Steve Jobs. That letter was refreshing and expository, and explains what I think a lot of people have had on their minds; how Motorola could hit a brick wall after the success of the RAZR.
It's pretty obvious now that the company sat on its collective ass selling the damn product forever until nobody cared anymore. Then they did nothing about it. Get an engineer into the CEO position, get a marketing person into CEO, get ANYONE who gives a damn or knows a thing about mobile products. Hell, get Ryan Block over there.
What's ironic is that from the sound of this letter, a majority of Engadget and Engadget Mobile readers are probably more qualified to be CEO than Greg "Kill Moto Dead" Brown.
Max Savin @ Mar 26th 2008 1:40PM
Yeah the comment was a joke but yes someone equivalent to Steve Jobs. I think the company just milked all its products and is now trying to bang all the money out of the company. Its always stupid people that make big decisions.
Brian f @ Mar 26th 2008 2:27PM
If this were the 90's Jobs couldn't take over. He was WAY too busy running his company into the ground. Until Jonathan Ive(designer of iMac, iPod) and his design team came and pulled his smug ass out of the fire. Apple is what it is today not because of Steve Jobs, but in spite of Steve Jobs.
CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 26th 2008 2:31PM
He wnated a phone that worked with itunes so yes he forced motorala to do it. But revenge fro making the phone so bad.
Heathen @ Mar 26th 2008 3:25PM
Yes style over substance is exactly what motorola needs!
Rich @ Mar 26th 2008 3:24PM
Everyone I know who has ever worked at Motorola says it's Dilbert-land.
The fact that their boss doesn't know how to use e-mail doesn't surprise me.
Chris @ Mar 26th 2008 7:47PM
Sorry Brian F but you don't know what you are talking about.
nikster @ Mar 26th 2008 8:39PM
@Neil: I bet Apple wanted the ROKR to succeed as much as anyone - it was their first iPhone and they thought they could do it with Motorola. Turned out Moto insisted on producing a turd - the looks of the ROKR alone should make it perfectly clear that Apple had no influence on this design.
Apple's revenge was to introduce the ROKR at the same time as the iPod nano. It was a bit cheeky in a "see that's what the device of the future should look like"-way but honestly also the only way to prevent a PR disaster.
Andrew @ Mar 27th 2008 9:22AM
@brian f: Not sure what you mean by your comment-Apple? Remember that Apple was headed for the toilet *before* Jobs came back, it was Jobs that created the iMac, Jobs that cannibalized the corpse of NeXTStep to make OS X, Jobs who showed the industry that design matters. It was the old-line business dudes who messed Apple up, and it looks like the same thing is happening at Motorola. Years of the same tired design with minor variations-it's a testament to the original RAZR that they still have a handset business to sell.