{"id":34743,"date":"2009-10-29T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=77481"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:06:18","slug":"with-droid-motorola-has-nowhere-to-go-but-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34743","title":{"rendered":"With Droid, Motorola Has Nowhere to Go But Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-77491\" title=\"droid-by-motorola-front-open-vzw-eye1\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/droid-by-motorola-front-open-vzw-eye11.jpg?w=168&#038;h=133\" alt=\"droid-by-motorola-front-open-vzw-eye1\" width=\"168\" height=\"133\" \/>Motorola&#8217;s free-fall  in the mobile phone space it once dominated continued <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacenter.motorola.com\/content\/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=12071&amp;NewsAreaID=2\">in the most recent quarter<\/a>: The company&#8217;s wireless revenues fell 46 percent to $1.7 billion during the period as its market share eroded to a mere 4.7 percent. And while Motorola managed to surprise investors by turning a $12 million profit, the plunging handset sales were just the latest in the stumble in the company&#8217;s slide toward irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p>The company has joined the crowded Android bandwagon in an effort to reverse its fortunes, and it&#8217;s sure to receive a boost from all the hype surrounding the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/10\/28\/droid-will-not-kill-iphone\/\">launch of the Verizon Droid<\/a>. 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