http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/ Engadget Comments for Motorola to layoff 3,000 employees, most of 'em in handset division http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
Well, its a must rather than going the SIEMENS way of giving their phone division to Taiwanese company, just to make the new owner realise that they are so inefficient and close them down much later.

I remember reading somewhere that Morotora is a 3rd generation family owned company (well, majority of the share), and during crisis somewhere in year 2003, the grandson of the company changed his working habit, going to office from once a week to 3x a week and boast his changing work habit to Fortune or Businessweek (i forgot which one).

And the company is also so much scrutinised for being out of touch with the technology that their CEO is soo old and dont even know how to text sms.

They'd better start rejuvenating the top position of the company like Intel did and get close to their target customer. ]]>Nov 2nd 2008 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/]]>Nov 2nd 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/

their stupid guidance forced employees to make crappy handsets and to ignore what the consumers want
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Those morons are the ones who gave the orders to make RAZR clone after RAZR clone.... even when they saw the immenent release of the best and most revolutionary phone... the iPhone >


KRZR K1
PEBL U6
RAZR V3
FONE F3
RAZR V3t
RAZR V3xx
RAZR²
RIZR Z3
ROKR
ZINE
W370....]]>Nov 2nd 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
Here's a novel idea: $100 mil if he does, 0 if he doesn't. That's a much better incentive to make handsets profitable.]]>Nov 2nd 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
Motorolla should have been out of business a long time ago. The only reason they were in business was because of the phone sales in the U.S. Maybe the RAZR caused an impact, but that was it really.

These layoff phases clearly indicated that the company's handset division is NOT doing a good job.

I sympathise for the employees, but not for the company.


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oh wait
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The RAZR clones surprisingly didn't help. Their adoption of Android is way too late.]]>Nov 2nd 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/


Chevrolet Cavalier Coupe - $16,330 less $1,500 current offer = $14,830

Honda Civic DX Coupe - $15,205 ]]>Nov 2nd 2008 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
Um, the cavalier has been discontinued... I was refering to the COBALT as a cavalier to point out the legendary crappyness of GM...

good luck getting any $$$ back for your GM car after 3 years...

either way you take it I'll still run you off the road in your cobalt/civic with my Buick GN... (yes I know GM)
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Motorola's decline however was really fast. Motorola's handset division used to be pretty good... StarTac, the V60 series, the v300 series (which I always was jealous of because they were some of the first quad-band phones with bluetooth), and then the RAZR... then I don't know wtf happened. They basically went from inventing new designs to seeing how many different RAZR clones they could make. Once again, no one is gonna suffer that was responsible for Moto's decline... ]]>Nov 2nd 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
Yes, Civic is probably a more reliable car than Cobalt, but that isn't all General Motors builds and many GM models beat Honda where it matters, in long term reliability. Not only that, even Chevrolet beats Scion (Toyota) in long term reliability as a brand.

http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/news/releases/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2008115

Scion. Beaten by Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge and completely trounced by Mercury, Cadillac, Buick, Lincoln and Ford.

Stop the hate. It's old.]]>Nov 2nd 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/I can only hope that this will drive them to finally make better products. I, and my fellow colleagues have suffered enough.
And BTW, I do agree they should have started to fire people from the top. ]]>Nov 2nd 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/]]>Nov 2nd 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 3rd 2008 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
dont let your imagination should never goto bed with your need to make others look worse. it does make sense actually.]]>Nov 2nd 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/
If you stop buying rubbish, these brands will not survive.. that goes for all gadgets, and CARS!
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I have to say, the RAZR was probably the best phone I ever owned, but now all I see are a ton of crap RAZR and KRZR-like models.]]>Nov 2nd 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 2nd 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Whats strange is that there are plenty of examples of teams with excellent interface design in the PC/Mac software world and in the web design world, but for some reason this never translates into the mobile phone realm. Yes, HTC's "touchflo" is a start, and both Android and Windows Mobile 7 looks to significantly improve on the status quo and even Blackberry has finally started to put some emphasis into it with their new models, but you would think we would be much farther ahead in this considering it's almost 2009.

I put a large part of the blame on Microsoft, who has seemed to relish living in the past with the pathetic interface they've long neglected on Windows mobile/CE. But Nokia, Samsung, SE, RIM, Palm, and others have long had many other OS choices, and they haven't been a whole lot better than WinMo.

Anyways, love them or hate them, Apple can certainly be praised for waking up all the lazy mobile phone executives who have for too long accepted the "good enough". Hopefully the iPhone has lit the fires under their fat bums!]]>Nov 2nd 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Nov 3rd 2008 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/02/motorola-to-layoff-3-000-employees-most-of-em-in-handset-divis/Jan 13th 2009 2:28PM