Comments on: Motorola takes last place among the big five phonemakers

By: -ex Motorola employee, Northern Illinois

-ex Motorola employee, Northern Illinois — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:15:08 +0000

Motorola was ran into the ground by Bob Galvin’s son and grandson with their long and unsuccessful list of pets products over the last 20 years. The most deadly was the concept of Digital 6 Sigma, which transform techical decision making from does it “work” to “do I have enought boxes check.”

The underlying problem is that they been going down the same path of project management for so long, they firmly believe they doing the right thing.

It a sad state of affair for a company, when a large number of the employees are consider being “the lucky ones” by their peers and themselves when they get laid off.

By: de_magnete, adelaide, south australia

de_magnete, adelaide, south australia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:35 +0000

Motorola has remained firmly a hardware company in an age of “software”. To succeed they need to cut the hardware engineers by 65 % or so and hire overall system and software designers. This is the age of software. Currently as soon as they get to the point of “we have nice hardware” the staff (being hardware focused, stop – and put out hardwre with weak sofware a both a system and handset level. They did try with software centers but the software centers were hampered by the toal control by hardware focused leadership. That’s my view.

By: Jack New York US

Jack New York US — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:24:29 +0000

Moto pays for lots of strategic errors by stupid managers for years.

By: reman, WPB FL

reman, WPB FL — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:19 +0000

They deserve it. Sat on their butts for years making RAZR variations that sell for nearly as much as the iPhone & 2x most other phones. Nothing great from them. You Snooze you lose!

By: Motorola Fans, Hong Kong, China

Motorola Fans, Hong Kong, China — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:04:52 +0000

Why China Mobile did not consider buy out Motorola – fire all these stupid CEO, excutives and replace with smart professionals, get MOTOROLA back on No. 1 position.

By: Art Jones (Motorola Retired) Ontario, Canada

Art Jones (Motorola Retired) Ontario, Canada — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:15:46 +0000

For a company that has led the way for years, the results in the last five years has been disgusting and getting worse!

Where has that proud company that Bob Galvin started gone!