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An odd detail has emerged from Motorola's divorce plan. After trying but failing to find a buyer for either the mobile phone business or the set top box business, the company is now seeking a simpler separation splitting the company into two bits: networks, and everything else. The incentives for co-CEO and mobile phone boss …

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  1. Rob
    WTF?

    For 38mil

    I'm sure I could be motivated to do as little as possible.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Shareholders

    The shareholders are mainly investment organisations - banks and pension funds. Reward for failure is their maxim.

    Only when "Joe public" can actively influence the Pension fund share voting will anything change.

    I still have my 2nd gen StarTac (the one with the smaller SIM holder but original shape). The ad of the girl walking down the beach with the phone carefully held was great (can't locate a pic unfortunately - else I'd post the link), as was the phone for the time.

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  3. A 20
    FAIL

    Of course they made a loss

    Has anyone ever tried to buy a Motorola handset in the UK lately? Last time I tried no-one had any Motorola handsets in stock, and no-one knew when any might arrive either.

    It's not surprising they make a loss on developing handsets that they never actually put on sale ;)

    As for being paid to fail, I thought that was fairly normal in the CEO arena...

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