Comments on: Who wants to buy Motorola’s mobile phone business?

By: billso

billso — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:36:52 +0000

From today'sBusiness Week: if Motorola cannot sell its mobile handset business, the only alternative is to keep the unit and fix it. Time's a-wasting.

By: billso

billso — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:05:59 +0000

Motorola has dropped far too many balls lately. Their design team can do good work, but their marketing people are a liability.

Apple had a good idea – make one version of the iPhone.

Motorola tried to please every carrier in every possible way. Now the carriers cannot give Motorola phones away.

Are they still talking up Zach Braff for the Fletch reboot? At this rate, they may as well cast Zac Efron as our favorite investigative reporter.

By: atypicalliving

atypicalliving — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:25:05 +0000

Like you said, this would have made sense in 2004, when Moto dropped the best selling, handset in the world, the RAZR.

Then… they released one for every carrier, and that went over well.

Then… they released like 50 different versions of it.

Then came the Moto ROKR, signaling the beginning of the end.

Then the shoddy quality of the remaining releases in the line (PEBL, etc.)

Then the whole mess with the Sidekick Slide battery. Moto’s fall from grace is only equaled in utter crappitude by Chevy Chase’s fall from superstardom.

Fletch = original StarTAC

Both are great works of art, ahead of it’s time, still pined for (as is evident by Kevin Smith trying to get the Fletch franchise going again) and, unfortunately, can never be duplicated.

Moto fell off hard, but if someone can revive them the same way Lenovo redid the ThinkPad, then there’s hope for them still.