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~~Motorola is a major supplier of communication equipment for the IDF and produces bomb fuses used in IDF's bombs. It also donated money to Project 2025.~~
Edit: there are two Motorola. The good one is the one shipping Google spyware and not updating their devices. The bad one helps Israel kill brown people.
Motorola Mobility was spun off from Motorola in 2012 and sold to Google. Then Google sold it in 2014 to Lenovo, the Chinese company that had also previously bought IBM's entire personal computer business.
Original Motorola, renamed Motorola Solutions, retained the rights to the Motorola name in everything except cell phones, and continued to manufacture radio and communications equipment and other signal processing equipment (including stuff like cable TV boxes). They remain a major contractor for militaries, law enforcement, and fire/EMS emergency responders.
If we're talking about Motorola cell phones, we're talking about the Chinese owned company, not the American owned company.
Oh man I never realized there was a separate non-phone Motorola company that remained where it was. Thanks for the explanation.
Thank you for educating me.
Now I can simply not buy their devices because they suck.
That's another Motorola. The one making phones is Lenovo who bought the brand to put it on phones.
The same Lenovo that got caught using rootkits to keep their software installed on PCs? https://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/
that was in 2015 though
like 10-11 years ago (as of march 2nd 2026)
I still haven't forgiven Sony for shipping malware in their CDs, Lenovo will never get approval from me.
Are there any companies left that haven't done some shady shit in the past?
A few small ones.
you mean like Sony shipped DRM?
Yes and when sued they provided a removal tool that put a new malware on pcs.
Ohh I see.
But thank God DRM is no longer kernel level.
Oh shit I forgot about that, we're old :|
All the major companies have too many ghosts, and will do things I do not like.
I really want to support more ethical organizations
do you mean Motorola Solutions or Motorola Mobility(the one Lenovo currently owns)?
The funny part is that's actually the least bad thing they've done.