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While it’s good to generate buzz, it is still something that the company ’should’ control. That is the point of having a PR department. So as many have said, not all leaks are good leaks for companies. So, BGR you are not doing them a favor by acting as a free PR department when you highlight internal problems…and I think it’s understandable that they’re upset.

BUT!

Don’t me wrong as a consumer it’s good to see what they’ve got behind locked doors.

Next time, just take the high ground. You can see more that way.

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Investigative reporters don’t walk up to Dick Cheney and shout “PWNED!” in his face.

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You feel that is unreasonable how? Because your job is writing about said leaks? This somehow makes you entitled to being liked by them, because you feel that if you report it a leak then it’s good?

Yeah, no, there’s a difference between teasers sent out to the public to get them salivating, and giving a company’s new secret weapon away to their competition.

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Should the press be there? Absolutely. Should the booth workers be catering to the press? Probably not – that’s why Moto holds pre-show press conferences/Q&A sessions.

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and it doesnt help when most blogs impose their own wish list on the vast majority who could care less if it is linux running the phone or symbian. they just want the phone to work. also, your negative tone and jabs may be funny in a high school sort of way, but thats not how corp america speaks, so guess why you dont get respect? respect is earned, usually with deeds.

in case nobody noticed, it is the linux phones from moto that perform the worst. just look at the razr2 v8 (linux) vs razr2 v9 (synergy) … but hey, the evangelists just go blind when they see the word “linux”.

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Too many phones I want!

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But… I haven’t seen a post on a blog this arrogant in a while. There’s almost an air of ‘the mobile news scene revolves around us’ that I just don’t like. BGR’s a very accomplished site, but this post came off as outright cocky and to come out and insult a company instead of objectively reporting what happened is something I find immature.

I can’t read this site in good conscience knowing that Boy Genius and company feel that self-important that they feel they get to insult whoever they want and make their site NSFW with pictures like MOTOFUKD.

Way to lower those standards. You’ve lost a reader.

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BTW – Oki made the first cell phone.

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Oh snap! As an AT&T retailer in a small market (West Texas), the only Moto products we sell are the V series (V3, V3xx, V9) and their GoPhone models. I won’t sell them to a customer unless they come in specifically looking for one, and even then I try to change their mind. I get too many complaints, and too many returns on the phones. Moto is a sinking ship, in both quality of their products, failure to address known issues with older models (V3 battery problems), and customer support.

They don’t need a fire sale, they don’t need to spin off the handset division, they need a top down complete overhaul of their handset division, and when they hire their replacements, they need to do the research on who they’re hiring, not just hire the first cheap exec that drops a resume on their doorstep. That’ll just land them an exec that’s only looking out for his bank account, and not the company (Oh wait, that’s already happened! twice if I’m not mistaken). It is unfortunate that a pioneer in the wireless telecom industry is this far behind the rest of the pack, but lets stop beating around the bush and call a spade a spade, Moto got complacent on the success of the V3 and made some bad decisions because of it, now they’re reaping the “rewards” of those bad decisions. Don’t get mad at the people that report the news. Would you be mad at an anchorman that reports on a gunman shooting up a school, or would you be mad at the gunman? BGR isn’t responsible for Moto’s poor market standing, their execs are. BGR’s just reporting on that like a good, responible news service would. The last sentence was spot on.

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Mo’ fire! Mo’ fire!

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Leaks are bad for companies like Motorola. Everyone complains about the RAZR and then subsequent derivatives like the RAZR2, Z9 (ohhh it’s a razr2 slider), etc. But when you leak products far ahead of time, it creates a business advantage for companies like Samsung which have thrived by stealing design ideas from EVERYONE! You may not like the RAZR but countless companies have reworked that innovative form factor. I mean let’s be serious, do any blogs complain about Apple being so tight assed about product leaks? Apple is notorious for not letting anyone see anything ahead of time aside from when Steve Jobs says so. Stomping your feet and saying you aren’t going to cover Motorola is juvenile, if you don’t, everyone else will.

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Although it is Moto’s fault as well.

If one leak stuff too early (and one is responsible for one’s own leaks as well), then it kills sales.

But BGR needs to understand now also, why Moto and many others do NOT want to leak too early.

It may serve BGR ad impressions well for a while, but it kills the heatseeker sales completely.

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They had at best a mid tier platform pre-Razr and during Razr. The industry also grabbed hold with mobile data (as crappy as EDGE was when it first got started) and voice all rising exponentially during the Razr dynasty and while the success was grand, Motorola wasn’t nimble (or lead correctly) to notice, act and attack the coming trend of “wireless mobility” that they so desperately clung to. Next it further missed mobility not capitalizing on 3G and next generation GSM technology in the states only to lose mindshare and market share to Samsung…who either gambled or saw the signs that 3G was real and what the public wanted.

GM, Ford, Chrysler were all dominant in their day too until the market changes caught them unprepared (being caught with gas guzzlers as oil spiked), foreign companies ripped off the ideas, made them cheaper and produced them twice as fast.

MotoFukd is incorrect, because there is still 50% of the business out there that drives mission critical two-way radio and set top boxes. They’ve just shielded Mobile Devices from the blistering fall they’re taking and the other segments have had enough too.

Motorola needs to take a hard look at their development cycle, because 18-24 months per phone, just isn’t going to cut it. I saw the Z9 on here, got excited, waited, lost interest and then was stunned that it was even released it has been so long since it was scooped on here.

As a huge fan of Motorola, not only as a company, but as an American Institution, I certainly hope they get it together and rise again in the Mobile Devices arena. Best of Luck Moto.

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As for leaks, so what? Every major phone is leaked, and yet because they are good, they still manage to garner interest, even after being released ages after their debut. The Z9 is pretty much the slider version of the RAZR2. Obviously, techies aren’t going to be interested in a rehashed version of an overdone phone’s successor.

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