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Motorola To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Focus On High-End Devices
jfruh writes "Motorola Mobility is facing its first major public shakeup after its acquisition by Google and it's not pretty for many employees. The company will be laying off thousands of workers as it attempts to reorient itself away from feature phones and toward more profitable high-end devices."
Nokia destroyed low end for other players in global scale..
cheapest nokias are so cheap it's very hard to compete there. note that this was happening all last decade, siemens got ran to the ground.. sammys featurephones were in trouble most of the time. Motorola had an one off hit with the razr but that was their high point in featurephones.
if you can buy a 101 for twenty-thirty euros.. what's there to compete? it's a supply and least parts necessary game. it's still a big business though.
but you know what's funny? the smartphones we have today into which nobody has found any good features in couple of last years to tack on will be hundred bucks in couple of years. they're gonna have to come up with some really good gimmicks for the high end if they intend there to be a high end high margin market at all then.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
so you want a smartphone, that cant browse the web or install apps. this is a terrible idea.
I agree. I also just want a phone that do well a single task: Phone calls.
I want a phone, not a useless toy.
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Ugh - there is room in the market for phones that AREN'T cookie-cutter copies of each other. What if I want a smartphone with a small screen - nobody would call that a flagship phone so nobody would make that a single-product focus. How about a phone with a keyboard - most people don't want that, so nobody would make that their single product.
The whole point of Android is that you actually get a choice. I don't want that to be a choice of 3 vendors who all make phones designed to look just like an iPhone...
Smartphones are not useless toys by any means. If you think that then I'm afraid your century has gone.
"Also they are attempting to introduce a more "small start-up culture" to Motorola"
Every failing company makes this claim. I have yet to see a single successful example.
You call this dumb phone? Seriously? QWERTY is for texting; MP3/Ogg is for music listening; a camera for picture. To me a dumb phone is telephone that makes voice call and maybe a call display.
"Also they are attempting to introduce a more "small start-up culture" to Motorola"
Every failing company makes this claim. I have yet to see a single successful example.
Except for Apple itself, right? Bring Steve Jobs back, reducing the number of products offered, and introducing the iMac certainly seems like introducing a "small start-up culture" to me.
that's still way too much unecessary crap. camera, mp3 player, sd-card slot, custom ring tones? you're confused, sonny boy, this is a god-dammned phone! keyboard for texting ok, because writing a sentence is better than wasting time yapping.no graphics at all are needed, a 4x25 line text display is plenty