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by ansible 1778 days ago
Oh, I hadn't realized it also got sold off.

Let's see, what all was sold off:

computer division, analog ICs (Onsemi), digitial ICs (Freescale, NXP), base stations (as mentioned), mobile phones (Motorola Mobility, Google, Lenovo). What did I miss?

It is funny that the Motorola as we knew it is gone, but many of the pieces remain. And others were able to make money using those pieces.

To this day I still fail to understand the corporate strategy behind all that.
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pfdietz 1778 days ago
Large companies are often worth less than the sum of their parts, particularly if there's little synergy between the parts.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conglomeratediscount.as...

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ansible 1777 days ago
The flip side of that argument is look at how vertically integrated companies like Samsung are. Apple used to buy processors and such from other IC vendors, and now they are doing that in-house.

I don't know how Motorola could have been fixed though.

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