“Motorola fans who tuned in to the company’s first-quarter conference call had at least one unpleasant takeaway: There’s still no new phone to save the company from its post-Razr crisis,” Scott Moritz reports for The Street.com. “The Schaumburg, Ill., wireless tech titan lowered targets for the second quarter and promised to make additional cuts that it would explain more fully in June.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Motorola fans?” Bwahahahahaha!
“While Apple’s soon-to-be-released iPhone captures all the industry buzz, Motorola will be trying to patch up old mistakes like getting 3G devices to the market a year late and making phones for India that actually work with India’s languages,” Moritz reports. “As far as new phones for Motorola, expect a lot more um … well … revamped Razr lookalikes.”
“On the conference call with analysts, CEO Ed Zander was asked what was in store beyond the three design platforms the company offers. Zander said he expected to see a good reception for the Rizr, a slide-open version of the Razr,” Moritz reports. “But beyond that, Zander didn’t put much faith in the notion of a killer design. ‘I don’t know how many ways there are to make phones,’ Zander said on the conference call. ‘We have to be careful not to build things like Swiss army knives.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Now that’s real leadership failure. You should’ve spent more effort on PowerPC and less on crap phones with unintelligible user interfaces, Ed, you vapid, soon-to-be-ex CEO.
Moritz continues, “Referring to the iPhone though not naming Apple, Zander says its what’s in the phone as much as what it looks like that might be the key to success. ‘The brouhaha’ about the ‘West Coast’ phone ‘is what it can do,’ says Zander. ‘That’s were I have the team focused.’ But as one money manager pointed out, Motorola is going no where this year, so all they can offer is ‘spin.'”
MacDailyNews Note: Motorola posted a loss of $181 million for the first quarter as revenue from sales of its mobile devices slid 15 percent to $5.4 billion, MarketWatch reported Wednesday morning.
Full article here.
Oh, you’re going to see some “brouhaha,” Eddie. Guaranteed.
Who else finds it funny (or sad) that Motorola’s CEO is already to the point where he can’t even bring himself to utter to names “Apple” or “iPhone?”
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@ UnWise
“For those who don’t know, Motorola stuck by Apple and made their processors for many years. G3 and G4’s etc.”
Er, yeah. Like blowing the G4 launch by failing to deliver 500mhz processors? Like taking a year and a half to break 1ghz? Like falling further and further behind Intel as the years wore on? Like selling off its chip business (which they had decided to do long before Apple left them)?
Yeah, they really stuck by Apple.
-c
“The Razr is a good device.”
If I wasn’t waiting for iPhone I’d replace my Razr today and throw the crappy piece of crap at you.
Jim – TIV – I coulnt agree you more.. my razr is the worst phone I have ever had. Me and my wife have the exact same problems are you describe. Such poor reception that she would be next to me and have a signal where as I had no signal at all. We have had them replaced 3 times. Everyone I meet who has one hates them, and they all have the problem of dust under the screen that you cant wipe off. Moto just lucked out with the success of this POS.
The “West Coast” phone? It’s a sure sign that you’re running scared when you can even say the iPhone’s name!
Serves them right for screwing over the Mac platform for a decade.
MOTO actually ditched Macs in their own offices—even though they made the CPU!
Talk about not eating your own dog food.
Yeah, they stand by Apple all right. They stood still for about a decade.
I believe the iPhone is too expensive to make any huge inroads into the moblie phone market in the near future. I do believe that Apple really could be onto a winner with it though in the long term. The technology is far superior to what is available in any current phone and probably more superior to what will be available in the next year and a half to two years. I know that I for one am going to find it tough to cough up €800 for a device that I oh so really want tbh. Hopefully initial sales will be good enough for prices to come down quite quickly as there has been/is a huge buzz surrounding it.
@ Irish Dude
I’m going to wait for the iPhone Nano, I not even going to try to wrap my mind around an iPhone shuffle. The iPhone is too much phone for my needs. But I like it though!
Peace.
> For those who don’t know, Motorola stuck by Apple and made their processors for many years. G3 and G4’s etc.
More like Apple stuck by Motorola. Apple used PPC chips just long enough to complete the Mac OS 9 (and Carbon) to Mac OS X (and Cocoa) transition. Once enough users and developers made the switch (with Microsoft and Adobe being late holdouts), Apple felt comfortable with starting the PPC to Intel transition. Looking at it now, I think Apple would have moved to Intel sooner if it was possible. That being said, I really like my Power Mac G5 (the late 2005 model); it’s going to stay useful for very long time. But has an IBM chip, not a Motorola chip.
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I hop beleaguered’s relatives don’t start chiming in…
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..hope.. mybad
LOVE the comment about PPC. Motorola should have done EVERYTHING to make the G4 run on an efficient mother board instead of that 167MHz FSB crap. Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh. Had we let them continue, they’d have finally gotten to 200MHz, while the G5 was flying on 1.35GHz DUAL FSB’s.
Motorola, perhaps it’s time to go back to making CB radios. That’s a big 10-4, good buddy!
I think it’s your ‘man-unit’ that you would “Whip out”.
A Thesaurus you would pull down from a book shelf, right?
big difference.
Perhaps you should review Leticia Balderich’s book on “Colloquial Expressions for International Business Correspondence”.
(ok, I did make that book title up).
@ipodluvr
The iPhone shuffle. Now that’s a wonderful idea. Random calls to your address book!
But i think you might need to have a few different shuffles – colour-coded to avoid embarassment…
…just think, you are stuck at home without a date on a Saturday night. You have a pink iPhone shuffle for dates – push the button and it randomly dials you a dinner date. You have a black iPhone shuffle – it will randomly dial you up a hot sex date. And a red iPhone shuffle – get out your toychest and randomly dial something kinky…
@beleagured
yes, its a nice word. I prefer it with Dell after it. But I am really hanging out for the day it appears with Microsoft after it. Though I would settle for “Bush Administration” after it, and that might come sooner anyhow,,,
I was unfortunate enough to get in an argument over the phone with Ed Zander while he was still at Sun Microsystems. He refused to deliver on a promise that he made to me. I eventually won out though, and he had to deliver what he promised me.
That said, I can’t see how he ever managed to become CEO of Motorola. “Peter Principle,” I suppose…
>Though I would settle for “Bush Administration” after it, and that might come sooner anyhow,,,
SS ,
over here we use the term “Lame Duck”
“You have a black iPhone shuffle – it will randomly dial you up a hot sex date”
In your case, I think the world would prefer you didn’t try to breed. Fortunately from your postings you seem to have a lot of attributes that would help ensure that you’re an evolutionary dead end.
@ beleaguered
Nice work, but a tad derivative.
-c
MW: ‘far’ (and a way)
800 pund specter?
Since when a specter has weight?
‘pound’ i meant, not ‘pund’
Maybe Ed Zander should attend the Steve Ballmer school of executive chair throwing to learn how to deal with the stress of Apple kicking their collective butts?
“West Coast Phone” HA!
He is so scared of Apple, he can’t even mention the name!
Magic Word: running — running on fumes, running away, running for their lives