Re: It's official--Moto

02-01-2008, 07:10 AM

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> is getting out of the phone biz
>
> http://tinyurl.com/22q5go
>
> Thank God. Now we'll be out of the Navas biz.

Huh?

They did the same thing spinning off their processor business into
Freescale. I doubt if they're going to exit the handset business, just
going to sping it into a separate company that can compete in a low
margin business.

02-02-2008, 08:14 PM

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:10:33 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <47a327b4$0$84205$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>They did the same thing spinning off their processor business into
>Freescale. I doubt if they're going to exit the handset business, just
>going to sping it into a separate company that can compete in a low
>margin business.

Actually a matter of agility, not margin. A big part of the problem at
Motorola is much lower margin than Nokia (e.g., 11.2% versus 16.7%).
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/22/yourmoney/moto.php>

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