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Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)

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nlehuen wrote: post #195
LeonM wrote: post #126

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After 2004, they ditched that slogan and started using "Sense and Simplicity" as their new slogan. I remember after that their consumer electronics got really, really bad. Basically all their products were just... not finished. The firmware on most of their devices was just terribly buggy, and features advertised on the box where sometimes not even available. I remember having an MP3 player where selecting the FM rad…

Philips in the Netherlands and Thomson in France went the same way ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_(marque) ) - after being major manufacturers of consumer products, they are now licensing their consumer brand to third party manufacturers. Basically they are banking on their previous glories and advertising. Sometimes you can spot the exact same product from a noname manufacturer, it's just missing the right…

Telefunken, too.

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AlbertCory wrote: post #45

It's amazing that neither the article nor any of the comments so far mention that Google bought part of Motorola, for its 10,000 patents. Then sold it a few years later. I was in Google Patents and I interviewed people for the position of "acquirer of patents." This was a period when they actually thought the "throw weight" of your patent portfolio really mattered in cross-licensing deals. Most of those patents were…

I always thought those big patent acquisition deals were as a mutually assured destruction tool in a potential patent fight. If sued they would have something to countersue with somewhere in that massive pile of vague patents.

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bdcravens wrote: post #91
eigenvalue wrote: post #62

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Yes, and even the legacy business (which makes radios for emergency responders among many other things) has been a great investment. If you bought MSI 10 years ago, you've made just under a 20% annualized return if you reinvested dividends. And ON Semi has been almost as good over the past decade. It's only in consumer cellphones where they did really badly.

Is it common to refer to it as MSI (the stock ticker for Motorola Solutions)? I would think most think of the computer hardware company when they hear that.

That’s the stock symbol for the company. Investors often refer to companies by their tickers.
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