Ron Garriques is out at Motorola
By Peter Rojas 
posted Feb 16th 2007 2:23PM
posted Feb 16th 2007 2:23PM
We don't know whether he was pushed out or left of his own accord, but the news has just hit the wires that Ron Garriques is out as the head of Motorola's mobile devices business. It's not totally shocking to see a change of leadership, Moto's cellphone unit has definitely been through some rough times lately. Profits have fallen as the company struggles to followup the success of the RAZR and they recently announced that they were laying off 3500 employees. Whatever happens, hopefully whoever succeeds him (Ray Roman, senior vice president, global sales, and Terry Vega, senior vice president, global devices, are filling in for now) will recognize that the cellphone game is way too competitive these days to think that rolling out the RAZR in new colors is an acceptable substitute for innovation.UPDATE: He's off to Dell to head up their Global Consumer Group.
What a flippant way to end the post, as if you know anything about what this guy thought was innovation. Motorola introducing colored RAZRs was never portrayed as innovation, any more than the color of your car is innovative. It's a popular phone (admittedly more so with the crowd that does not read Engadget) and they were catering to the market.
Well, he was tapped by Dell - so instead of making disparaging remarks, you might want to actually report the news instead of the spin.
am i the only one who thinks this guy's picture is hilarious?