March 27 - Motorola said yesterday that the company plans to split into two units, one of which would handle mobile operations. The company press release states that it plans to divide into two, “Industry-leading companies.” Motorola’s Chief Executive Officer Gregory Brown, however, cited problems to fill the void of the once-popular Razr phone. At the Razr’s inception, it was a must have device; lately, however, it is hardly a blip on the mobile unit radar.
This decision does not necessarily have drastic consequences to the mobile device market other than this: keep research and development working. If the Chief Executive Officer is willing to recognized that the flagship device is the reason for the undoing of one company into two, what happened in research and development? Though the Razr has gone through generations of evolution, where was the foresight to anticipate the need for a follow-up flagship product (or new innovation to the same product) to maintain market share.*
*Hindsight is 20/20.
The New York Times reports here.
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