Motorola: Hands Off You Damn Dirty Apes

Established in 1928, Motorola was a telecommunications company that designed and produced a number of consumer and professional products, from two-way radios to cable TV set-top boxes to cellular and smartphones, including the once groundbreaking RAZR. After a rough patch towards the end of the first decade of the 2000s, Motorola was split into two independent companies: Motorola Solutions, which “provides mission-critical communications products and services to enterprises and governments” and Motorola Mobility, which “delivers personalized information to meet the needs of consumers both in the home and on the go.” The latter keeping the smartphone side of the business. In 2012 Google acquired Motorola Mobility setting up a beneficial synergy between Google’s