Motorola does indeed have some top notch products, but they actively pursue those lucative Public Safety markets. The always have concentraded on the govenment market with marketing techniques to enhance their share, including providing customers with bid sheets that they can use to solicit bids that will exclude other manafacturers equipement, . . .
Pursuing a market is what every successful company does.
And providing "Standard Specifications", "Boilerplate", or "DTS" (Detailed Technical Specifications) that at least favor, if not define your offering in the absolute norm in almost every technical field. To say that either is improper or unethical is ridiculous.
. . . or in some cases outright bribes.
You may remember the Motorola "works in a drawer" TV's these wee a favorite bribe item. I remember a municipal purchaser let it be known he sure like a new motorocycle, soon a new Motorola contract was signed and he was seen driving a new bike around town.
Don't wet your pants over Motorola; they do sell good stuff, but there is sometimes more behind the sale than meets the eye.
. . . . And I truly believe motorola is as corrupt as the day is long.
They haven't made those TVs in about 35 or more years.
I would love to know when the "motorcycle" example is from.
I don't think any company or industry has been without bad actors, but to imply that Motorola is an outlier defames a lot of very honest, ethical and hard-working people to whom the industry owes its existence to.
I am not saying that Motorola is the only driver of the industry, but given the amount of cross-pollination in the industry, I hardly know anyone who did not work for Motorola, work for a manager who was with Motorola, or have people working for them that worked for Motorola. To claim they are corrupt, is to claim that most of the industry, is either corrupt or complacent with corruption.
Sorry, those are NOT the people I have known well for over 25 years.
(and, yes, I take such libelous statement personally)