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Motorola CEO Ed Zander says he's confident Motorola can compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone. more

[MacTel]

How do they deal with us?
iRAZR
or for Zander iCRAZY /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[bigh]

They could start by making phones that don't break inside 6 months. We've had 4 Moto phones, and all broke far too quickly, especially the Razr.
No mo Moto for me.

[Grapho]

From all the brands (Moto, Nokia and SonyEricsson), by far the worst has been the Motorola of the phones that I have personally owned.

[Peter Cohen]

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They could start by making phones that don't break inside 6 months.

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They'd last longer if you stopped throwing them at the wall every time you get frustrated with the lousy UI.

[wintomac]

You took the words right out of my mouth. I've a Moto RAZR and it's got to be the most confusing device to use I've ever had. It's a shame because the hardware isn't bad.

[cptnkirk]

"one of the companys product development goals to offer wickedly cool products, Zander said."
Is this Moto's copy of Steve's "insanely great!"?
LOL

[Kurtster]

Hah!
He sounds like that Iraqi foreign Minister guy who said "there are no US troops here. Everything is normal" as you could hear the rounds going off in the background.
Seriously, "how are they going to deal with us"??? I kinda feel sorry for the guy if he's fooling himself to that level.
Nobody has anything like iPhone, not even the great Motorola.

[maineguy]

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Motorola CEO Ed Zander says he's confident Motorola can compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone. <a href="/news/2007/05/09/motorola/index.php">[more]</a>

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I said it before and I believe it more now than ever. The iPhone will do just fine, and it's already affected the other company's strategy, and hopefully their quality in the future! It can only bode well for us consumer types!
Imagine the day when your cellphone is easy to use AND can actually function well as a phone!!!

[ConstableOdo1]

That lousy company cannot be trusted. I'm not sure if they're crooked or just plain stupid. How long will they continue running the company into the ground. They seem to be oblivious of what's going on around them. Motorola acts as if it has some grand master plan when all of their acquisitions will bear fruition. All Motorola will have is just bunches of disconnected companies. The makers of the Blackberry understand what people want and that company has only been around a short while. Zander wants to take on the iPhone, yet they can't even handle Nokia, RIM, or Ericcson. Why don't they just sell the company if they don't know what users want. I think any company that focuses on beating other companies products are just not innovative enough to be a leading company. Zander should just apologize to investors, then shut up and come up with a decent product.

[AppleHead]

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"one of the companys product development goals to offer wickedly cool products, Zander said."

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Is this Moto's copy of Steve's "insanely great!"?

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No, just a wannabe knock-off.

[AppleHead]

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He sounds like that Iraqi foreign Minister guy who said "there are no US troops here. Everything is normal" as you could hear the rounds going off in the background.

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That was "Baghdad Bob."

[Dan Frakes]

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They could start by making phones that don't break inside 6 months.

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They'd last longer if you stopped throwing them at the wall every time you get frustrated with the lousy UI.

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It's funny cuz it's true. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Nobody]

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Hah!
He sounds like that Iraqi foreign Minister guy who said "there are no US troops here. Everything is normal" as you could hear the rounds going off in the background.
Seriously, "how are they going to deal with us"??? I kinda feel sorry for the guy if he's fooling himself to that level.
Nobody has anything like iPhone, not even the great Motorola.

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You had me at "Iraqi foreign Minister guy" but you lost me at "the great Motorola"! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
So great they've F'd themselves out of the computer business not once but TWICE!
(1st their Mac clones were outsold by PowerComputing's and I think even UMAX, then they screwed up with PowerPC manufacturing and lost the CPU part of the business as well! DOH!)
Now, picture this... if they get run out of the cell phone business, what's left?
Who will they sell all those embedded cell phone chips to if they can't even sell enough phones to buy their OWN chips ??? Apple ???
When Apple was in trouble and all the analysts were saying they were going to go under, no one was saying Motorola was going to go under because obviously Motorola was the more diversified company that could withstand something like that. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
If this story were written in the tone of all of those Apple death notices, the title of this story would read...
CAN MOTOROLA POSSIBLY SURVIVE?
Funny thing is, I actually wonder if they can survive. Even if the iPhone is not a smash success (and I suspect it might not be given the price), it will only get better and cheaper in revision 2.
Unless Motorola has some secret magic device under wraps, I'd worry about their future.
I realize I'm projecting far ahead, but I can easily see people thinking in a year or 2,
"Who wants an "old school" "cell phone" when you can have an iPhone?"
And I say that without really any intention of even buying one right away!
I just find it unimaginable that Steve Jobs could be so wrong on something this big more so than I can think of a Motorola product that could compete with something this big. We'll see soon I guess.