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Old 06-21-2012, 02:14 PM
 
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...lord knows I like a good bit of "forum jousting" as much as the next guy. The problem is that in the context of one post or even a single thread too often firmly held opinion often sounds like a "throw down"...




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I agree, sometimes I feel a bit feisty though. Apologies for the blanket wasteland statement.
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Old 06-22-2012, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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Sigh....Never mind. Go have a hot dog with ketchup and let the grownups talk.
Go play in Humboldt Park after dark(Closest one to another digit)
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Old 07-26-2012, 02:30 PM
 
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It's now official.

Motorola Mobility leaving Libertyville for downtown Chicago - chicagotribune.com
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Old 07-26-2012, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Bay Area
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Thank god, the city needs a new feather in its cap, and hardware engineering hub would be perfect for the local economy.
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Old 07-26-2012, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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W00t!
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Old 07-26-2012, 02:44 PM
 
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I was driving by the old Motorola facility in Arlington Heights (which before Motorola needed the space was to be Shure's state of the art headphone and pro audio facility, funny how they were too far ahead of that curve...) and it is now officially Nokia/ Siemens Telecom. The loss of yet another once revered area of US created industrial greatness. For folks that don't think about the infrastructure needed to get all the bits from your iPhone or Android to actually connect to an RF network and then to the Telephone Backbone or the interwebs this stuff might as well be magic but for generations of guys (and a few gals) that majored in EE at IIT, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Rose Hulman or Chambana the fact they are no longer working for a company that plowed millions in profits back into the success of such engineering schools is going to be a ripple that hurts in more ways than we'll ever know...


I saw a damned Big Lots commercial last night touting their $89 Android tablet. Moto, as a hardware company under the goofy multi-colored umbrella of Google, the world's greatest online advertising firm, has no future.

It brings me no joy to be a "debbie downer" on this. I remember when Zenith had a state of the art factory alongside 294 in Northlake (which is just a little south of where Microsoft has their massive server farm for Bing that employs maybe a couple of dozen jockeys to plug in new cargo containers filled with hardware made in Asia...). The old corporate HQ and R&D labs where Zenith worked on HDTV are now the Glenview offices of Aon. The shift to stuff that needed engineers to stuff that happens because of regulatory relationships will increase and the shift in employment / income won't be something that folks will like...

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Old 07-26-2012, 02:46 PM
 
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What are you talking about? Motorola split it's mobile phone and cable box division off from the company, and that's what sold to Google, and is now moving downtown.

Their core government contract division is unchanged, or at least not part of the news cycle dealing with this part of the company.
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Old 07-26-2012, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh (via Chicago, via Pittsburgh)
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sweet! the Merch Mart is becoming quite the tech hub as of late
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Old 07-26-2012, 02:58 PM
 
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Awesome news!
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Old 07-26-2012, 08:08 PM
 
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Motorola is a shell of its former self and google / some location change will not undo that.

The core infrastructure of the cellular network business was far less sexy but ultimately more important because that infrastructure was where all the R&D payed off and THAT is now part of Nokie Siemens Nokia Siemens Networks Finally Completes Acquisition of Motorola Solutions for $975 Million - Softpedia...


As to the consumer phone side.Moto will likely die in the Merchandise Mart space. You don't need 3000 people to design cell phones. You don't really even want a "regular" office building. You need a "small scale prototype lab" and RF engineers that can work with the kinds of technology that answers the kind of needs that consumers have. The current generation of Moto Android phones do that pretty well and having 3000 people in the Merchandise Mart were not part of that success. When Moto succumbs to the onslaught of HTC/ LG/Samsung /Huawei google will vacate the space and move the legal team to the googolplex in Mountan View CA and they won't give a second thought to the train wreck...

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