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Motorola


Why you annoy me:

  • The Motorola Razr.  Horrible, horrible phone.  It is the epitome of form over function.  Here is an idea: instead of adding new, unwanted and useless features with each new version, why don't you make the features you already have work?
  • Continuing with the Razr.  Remember the 10 minute period when the Razr was the coolest thing anyone could possibly have?  What went wrong?  First, the phone itself sucks as the operating system is crap and the phone is underpowered so it goes super slow.  Second the phone is fragile and breaks with almost zero force.  Third, they allowed people who have pre-paid accounts to get them on the cheap.  No offense to poor people who are forced to do pre-paid because they have bad credit (although that is pretty much your fault) but as soon as poor people can easily get some tech thing it really isn't cool anymore.  Once they started selling them pre-paid, the retail price went from $499 to negative $200 overnight. 
  • Ask anyone on the street what, besides cellphones, Motorola does.  A super nerd (or generally awesome people, like me) would vaguely know that they make networking components, but that's about it.  Other than that, I had no clue.  I hate companies like this.  If you are a famous company who is a household name, I ought to have some idea of what your business is.  Not the case with Motorola. 
  • I went to your website to see what exactly you do.  Besides the networking bullshit no one cares about, the only thing you really do- despite having a huge list of things you do- is management consulting for public and private entities.  Basically, your shit company is like IBM, except you sell a mobile phone too, whereas IBM sells worthless computer processors to dumber companies like Sony.
  • Apparently Wallstreet doesn't know what you do either, since your stock sucks.
  • The only retail place to buy your networking components is Walmart.  They must be good.

 

Possible mitigating factors:

  • You have a lot of cash, so conceivably your R & D department could manage to shit out a phone that is cool and doesn't suck.
  • You could still fire your CEO and ditch the "do everything for everyone" thing.  Usually when a company says, "we provide every service needed for any client" that means "we don't do anything."
  • In a year period, Razr phones went from a great way to identify rich assholes to a great way to identify people with bad credit.  There were already tons of ways to pick a rich asshole out of a crowd, but it was hard to see a credit problem as it walked by.





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