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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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