On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 10:19, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:29:08AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Something manufactured in China with a "Motorola" brand (owned by Lenovo, an RoC company) may seem like a safer bet than one with a "Umidigi" or "Doogee" brand. Remember when Motorola was a US company? When they had their own important microprocessors (6800, 68000, etc.)?
I wonder how many pieces Motorola split into. Microprocessors was split off and I think was renamed freescale, then NXP took over. Qualcomm tried to get NXP but was not allowed. Their cell phones went to Google and then Lenovo. Their enterprise stuff (wifi and logistics management devices) went to Zebra, and then they sold the wifi part to Extreme Networks. Plenty of other bits went in who knows what direction.
I own a few shares (and loved getting annual reports back in the Iridium project days where the company had a major Space Division), so got some notices of things. I had a few shares of Freescale at one point... Having share holdings didn't lead to getting all that much knowledge about the "spinning" :-( Your list is more complete than what I was aware of. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"