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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."
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...
"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.
Your vision is mostly here too, if you're willing to use Google services and Android.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak