Motorola shareholders' questions still unanswered

Frustrated Motorola Inc. shareholders arrived at Monday's annual meeting with plenty to vent about but left with few answers.

[WTF]

Motorola's executive suite is filled with financial vultures.

The new Motorola is only in business to cash out the top level.

They are in the process of selling body parts.

I tell every Motorola engineer I meet to find an investor and get a competitive start up going while you can. Motorola is going to ship their jobs to India as soon as it can,

Motorola is no longer an operating company, it is a storage facility for body parts that the financial people are going to sell peice by peice.

[dave devane]

Motorola and it's employees couldn't hit a bull in the aarrssee with a bag of shite, if they were standing directly behind it. They have always been the worst at getting products to market on time and putting out products into the market place knowing there would be a rash of failures. Their management is suited to engineering and not marketing and that is a big problem. They are totally out of touch and as a former supplier, they were not worth the aggravation, are where they have earned to be. In the shite house! They are dragging their feet on the break up, they can't even do that right.

[Yawn]

Their problem in the handset business has not been their "technology focus." That's just double talk to appease the audience. It's an over-reliance on doing whatever their carrier (phone company) customers tell them. Apple's decisions with the iPhone were not welcomed by any carrier, but they did it anyway and AT&T agreed under duress rather than have that market winner in someone else's hands. That same error happens all the time in the cable and infrastructure businesses. And they lack the courage to market directly to consumers, not through carriers. My sense is that they still don't get it, so whatever shows up in 2009 will be the same junk that the carriers ask for, with features that nobody can use or understand, but in a pretty package.

Good grief!