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Motorola shutting down its Texas plant where they built Moto X

article published on 31 May, 2014

Motorola Mobility has announced that it will shut down its factory in Texas that was opened to build the Moto X smartphone last year. The plant, at its peak, employed 3800 workers, but that figure is down to 700 now. While the company had hoped to show that manufacturing could make its way back to the U.S., it appears the costs remained too high (or demand was too low) to keep the ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		2. June 2014 @ 14:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Go ahead Motorola! You P.O.S. F'ING SELLOUTS!

Go make that CRAP for other countries because you have no desire to appeal to the greatness of OUR COUNTRY.

I wish Moto would shrivel up and die! They've sucked the consumer market dry with GOD awful sub-standard products only to primarily cater to Brazil and India???? WTF is that?

Disgusting epitome of America biz.
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Ripper
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_ 		2. June 2014 @ 14:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
 Go ahead Motorola! You P.O.S. F'ING SELLOUTS!

Go make that CRAP for other countries because you have no desire to appeal to the greatness of OUR COUNTRY.

I wish Moto would shrivel up and die! They've sucked the consumer market dry with GOD awful sub-standard products only to primarily cater to Brazil and India???? WTF is that?

Disgusting epitome of America biz.


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_ 		2. June 2014 @ 19:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
:D Best reply ever.
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Jemborg
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_ 		3. June 2014 @ 04:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Less than a year.... what does this tell us?



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Ripper
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_ 		3. June 2014 @ 04:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Jemborg:
 Less than a year.... what does this tell us?



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That not enough Moto X units were sold to exploit economies of scale that would enable production to remain in the US.
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Jemborg
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_ 		3. June 2014 @ 11:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Ripper:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
 Less than a year.... what does this tell us?



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That not enough Moto X units were sold to exploit economies of scale that would enable production to remain in the US.
I'm really asking about the why.

I honestly don't know. Is it the death knell for manufacturing in the US or just a crap product? Is it wages or education? What part does globalisation play in this... was it just a final assembly plant... ?
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Chroma45
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_ 		4. June 2014 @ 17:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They are all final assembly plants. Made in China is not MADE in China.
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_ 		4. June 2014 @ 17:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
look at the name in the picture over the doorway as that is not owned by google or motorola.
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Ripper
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_ 		4. June 2014 @ 19:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well Motorola is now owned by Lenovo (or will be whenever the deal goes through), but a quick Google search tells that this decision to close the factory was made prior to the sale.
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