Chapter 574: Motorola Spin-off

Motorola is a great enterprise, big brother, pager, feature phone, the name Motorola has almost witnessed the historical changes of the domestic communication industry since the reform and opening up of China. However, due to the failure of the investment in Iridium, which led to the loss of the company, Christopher Galvin, a member of the family of Motorola's founder Paul Galvin, resigned and quit the management of Motorola. Wall Street investors (Carl Icahn) took command remotely, professional managers took turns at the helm, and Motorola embarked on what they called a "more aggressive reform campaign." In 2008, the board of directors approved Motorola's spin-off decision, and this year the spin-off plan was confirmed. Motorola will complete the final spin-off in the first quarter of 2011. During this period, Motorola's three major business areas, mobile phones, semiconductors and wireless network services, all experienced a decline in annual revenue.

To say that they have done nothing wrong, the capital-controlled Motorola has changed its strategy of multi-product lines and multiple businesses, focusing on the field of mobile phones, spinning off and selling off other businesses with declining revenues. However, the mobile phone business did not improve much, and there were fewer and fewer other profitable businesses, and the huge losses forced Motorola to sell the company's business to improve its financial position, forming a vicious circle of loss-sale-loss-resale-resale. It can be seen that the right solution may not necessarily bring the desired results. Nokia's mobile phone business was brilliant in the first decade of the century, but Motorola went downhill ahead of schedule.

However, it cannot be said that Motorola has failed, although it is true in the field of mobile phone communications, but its spin-off semiconductor company Freescale is ...... Well, this company is not very good either, there is nothing to look good at.

Back to Motorola, the company's product strategy is unknown, and the three development platforms that exist at the same time are LinuxJava, Symbian UIQ, and Microsoft's indosMobile. Of course, this is not going to work, so they put all their strength into Google's Android, and they have released a good product this year. However, at this time, smart phones began to standardize the road, and the vast majority of products fell into homogeneous competition. Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, HTC, including Nut's Android phones, are actually not much different. At this time, it is marketing, which is a big challenge for Motorola, where the engineer culture dominates.

Having said so much, it actually shows that Motorola Mobile has actually been targeted by many people at this time, including Jobs's Apple, Google, Microsoft and many other companies that want to have plans in this field. You must know that the Android at this time is not the Android that did not have the threat of patents later. Apple is also not the same Apple that acquired Nortel's 4G and LTE patents. As for Microsoft, it has no hardware experience until now.

Google obviously has more ambitions, and they have partnered with LG to launch a mobile phone product, NexusOne, which costs almost the same as Guoke, but whether it is industrial design or configuration, it is much worse than Guoke, and the sales volume can be imagined. The increase in the overall price of the Shell mobile phone is not only to force the price of the iPhone to rise, but also to widen the gap with latecomers such as HTC, after all, the two sides are not competitors at the same level.

Microsoft, Apple and Google, and Samsung may also have ideas about Motorola, with the exception of Samsung, which has a market capitalization of more than $200 billion. Motorola Mobile is only more than 10 billion, perhaps this acquisition is less than 5% of their market value, but the patent accumulation of mobile communications is countless times that of these three companies.

Guoke obviously can't be indifferent to the changes in the industry, although there is patent protection from Nortel Networks and IDCC, but in terms of operating system patents, Time Android still has a lot of defects. Guoke is destined to be tied to Time Android, and there is a great possibility of patent disputes in the future. Apple and Microsoft, in particular, have a deep accumulation of operating system patents.

Feng Xing also served as the CEO of Guoke, and Jeff Williams, who was poached from Apple, became the company's COO, the man who became a clone of Tim Cook. The surge in sales has strained the supply chain of the husks, which has caused various problems during this period, although it can be solved with funds in the short term, but it will definitely not work in the long term. Apple's supply chain management is a classic, and Tim Cook's contribution to it is almost unparalleled. However, there is no doubt about Jeff Williams' ability to become Apple's new COO a few years after Jobs' death. If it weren't for the rapid development and huge profits that covered up a lot of problems, the market would have matured in the future, and under the conditions of complete competition, the shell would inevitably be unable to compete with Apple. There are also Ni Fei and Liu Zuohu and others who have become executives of Guoke's domestic and foreign branches respectively, and how the future will depend on their creation. Many things have changed, Nubia doesn't know, OnePlus mobile phones may not still exist, just like Xiaomi mobile phones, although Lei Jun is a part-time worker in Time Holdings, but let him resign now to start a business, this possibility is too low. Lei Jun, who is seizing the time to learn English, can't he see that Time Holdings is an international enterprise with the strongest technical strength in China? Is there a more powerful enterprise in China than Time Holdings? Jack Ma who sells fakes, Robin Lee who buys small advertisements, Xiao Ma Ge, the king of copycats, or the security master 360? The risk of starting a business is too great, and it is better to take a ship that is moving forward at a high speed than to start a business yourself.

Zhou Shi couldn't find anyone to discuss the matter of Motorola for a while, Feng Xing was dealing with things in Xiangjiang at this time, and Jeff Williams began to sort out the supply chain relationship of Guoke not long after he arrived. As for the other management of Fruit Shell, such as the CFO is Brett Biggs, who was poached from Walmart.

In general, he still hasn't found anyone he can communicate with with confidence. Jack Ma has Chai Chongxin and Zeng Ming, Brother Xiao Ma has Liu Zhiping, he originally had a Lu He, but now he has become a loner, which is also sad and lamentable. How to solve worries, only beauty. Wang Xirui and Li Jia (the female student who will join Google with Li Feifei in the future) began their entrepreneurial journey, immersed themselves in the development of Snapchat instant messaging tools, and actually did not have time to accompany him. With such a small broken tool, what is there to look forward to!

Temporarily putting aside the troubles in his heart, Zhou Shi continued to inspect his industry, Fengyun Culture, Sports Technology Investment Company. The technology company that owns Liverpool, the Golden State Warriors (holding), Borussia Dortmund (part-shared) and Miramax (holding). The sports technology industry is a joke, although Fengyun Sports mainly does big data analysis, but the current market is also infinitely close to zero, mainly for the service of several of its clubs, even the break-even can't be done, and it has to rely on Zhou Shi to raise, but who makes him rich and capricious? Miramax's joining is also a way to transfer wealth, and every film investment can always dig a little from it, and it should be able to make it bigger to support itself.

"What are you looking at?" Zhou Shi walked behind a program ape of Fengyun Sports and asked kindly.

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