“It would still see ‘modest profitability’ based on revenue of $3.4 billion, but it would see just 10.5 million phones shipped, 5.3 million of which would be smartphones,” Electronista reports.The number would be a sharp contraction from the 11.6 million shipped in the summer, when it moved 4.8 million smartphones.”
Electronista reports, “The company made thinly veiled references to Apple as being largely responsible for the fiscal and unit drops. Its downfall was due to the ‘the increased competitive environment in the Mobile Device business and higher legal costs associated with ongoing Intellectual Property… litigations,’ Motorola said… The iPhone 4S is known to have kept the Droid RAZR down in sales at Verizon, while the iPad has largely gone without serious opposition from any Motorola tablet to date.”
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