Remember the Razr? Remember when your stock had value? Remember when you had a market share in the cell phone world?
I do. I remember those shiny metal Razrs in all shapes and sizes filling the pockets of the wealthy at $400 dollars a piece. I remember the excitement of holding one for the first time, and feeling the smooth and rounded edges of luxury.
And I remember watching your worth fall just as quickly as the price of the Razr rocketed down to free (with 2 year contract of course)
You spent the next few years filling the small void in our hearts where free phones fit in. And yet, it was clearly distinguishable that Nokia should have been there instead.
Several births of unsatisfactory children later, you decieded to join the race…to create a champion horse from the semen of Seabiscuit (Android)
And you succeeded!…but….not because of you. Your hardware was but a plastic goblet to hold the holy water. With all the innovation and hype and beauty of Android 2.0, you gave us an HTC handset that we’ve been using for the last year. No metal finishings? No keyboard separations? No 8mp shooting? No Apple-esque innovative battery?
And the Cliq-you ‘innovation’ for T-Mobile. A waste of more than 10% of the screen size on useless button, a small 528ghz processor, ugly colors, No flash!, a D-pad? and braille on the back?
Take a hint from your own past. This is a market where the one uniquely innovative device can take hold of the market (see Razr, iPhone). Take your time. Hire some people. Get back on top.
