Comments on: Motorola Sold 1 Million Tablets in All of 2011, 5.3 Million Smartphones in Q4

By: IOSLover

IOSLover — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

That is a great theory but who is going to make money if they sell the tablets for less than they cost to make(or break even)? Manufacturers only make money on the hardware so why in the hell would they want to cut into their profits? Google would be happy because they don’t pay for the cost to build tablets and they could make money on the back end but how does that help Moto, HtC and Samsung?

By: LarryPage

LarryPage — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

You are so clueless. Revenue means absolutely nothing in business. Profits matter. Revenue minus operating cost equals profits. Revenues could be 100 trillion but if you lost money last year you go out of business eventually. Profits are the amount of money you “make”. Please go read a book about basic accounting. You are embarrassing yourself.

By: Stating El Obvious

Stating El Obvious — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Did you buy the Nexus on launch day? If so, how did you know if it did or did not suck?

Responding to you is like responding to a fandroid, he’ll still be a sheep no matter what you say.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Nexus sales don’t equate to how good they’ve made their phone. Hell the first Nexus was only available for purchase online and yet years have gone by and it’s still getting ICS as it’s OS.

Although responding to you is like responding to a donkey, he’ll still be a jackass no matter what you say.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:25:00 +0000

There was a line at my store the morning the Nexus launched. A few days later my salesman told me they sold 100 of them in the first half of the day. If the results were similar across the nation along with the continued sales I bet they are not doing to bad with it. And keep in mind that the Nexus launched silently with no advertising.

The salesman told me that there was nobody waiting the morning the Razr launched. And they had done advertising well ahead of time. He said they sold well enough, just not anything exciting.

Now I hate to say this… when he told me they sold 100 Nexus quickly I asked how many iPhones they would sell on the first day of launch and he said 200. But then again everyone knows it is coming and are excited. To sell 100 Nexus phones on launch when nobody knew it was coming isn’t bad.

But who knows, I am curious to get the real numbers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:17:00 +0000

I am sure they are selling plenty of Nexus phones, but there real big seller is the GSII line on all the carriers. I love my Nexus, but they should have sold Verizon a fully unlocked stock Gingerbread GSII…. “and call it a Nexus if they want”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:13:00 +0000

It’s because these tablets are way overpriced. It is difficult to compete with the iPad at the same price. They need to be half the price of an iPad.

I think they need to start selling all these tablets at almost no profit or else everyone is going to get an iPad. And after everyone gets an iPad they are going to start thinking about getting and iPhone to go with it.

My employee and his wife just got new Android phones 2 months ago. She got an iPad for Christmas and also just got herself an iPhone to go with it…. I bet this is not all that uncommon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:07:00 +0000

Well said.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:05:00 +0000

I didn’t buy the Nexus because the logo says “Nexus” on it. I got it because ever since the D1 I wanted a stock phone with an unlocked bootloader.
Samsung simply gave us what many of us wanted.

Motorola stated that those of us that want to root and rom should go elsewhere.If Motorola turns things around and gives is what we want I am sure many of us would come back.

By: MrSix

MrSix — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Listen you fathead. Revenue is money you make from selling a product or service. Point is operating losses are their biggest problem, because lawsuits aren’t cheap, and they’re still selling enough phones to profit once those suits are wrapped up.

Don’t try to lecture me when you don’t even understand the importance of revenues and by extension growth for a business.

By: Remington Bob

Remington Bob — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:00 +0000

LOL Let’s hope they don’t announce the number of Nexi sold. That would be embarassing.

By: Stating El Obvious

Stating El Obvious — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:46:00 +0000

What are you talking about. The Nexus line has historically been failures sales-wise. But don’t let reality cloud the sheepism.

By: SteveJobs

SteveJobs — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:15:00 +0000

OMG!!! MrSix actually has common sense and doesn’t think that the average consumer gives two hoots about a stock Android experience. Kudos to you sir for having common sense in the land of delusion.

By: James Kirk

James Kirk — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:39:00 +0000

Motorola makes great hardware, but their software sucks and needs to be retooled. I hope that is what Google will do to them when they take over. Because a Motorola phone with vanilla Google software would be a wonderful thing and IMO unstoppable.

By: LarryPage

LarryPage — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:15:00 +0000

Wow you are not only dumb but you call people out for being dumb when you clearly cannot read.

The GAAP net loss in the fourth quarter of 2011 was $80 million, or $0.27 per share, compared to net earnings of $80 million, or $0.27 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2010. On a non-GAAP basis, net earnings in the fourth quarter 2011 were $61 million, or $0.20 per share, compared to net earnings of $108 million, or $0.37 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2010.so clown boyMotorola made money from stocks, bonds, treasuries, cash, interest or any other investments the company has. You should really study accounting or economics. You can use google to find out what GAAP means.