Motorola’s Forgotten Reign: The Giant That Powered Apple Before Losing to Intel

Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call in 1973, and sold about 130 million RAZRs in the 2000s. Then it cut its own price, ran out of successors, and sold the handset business for a fraction of what Google had paid. This is the full history, 1928 to 2014. 00:00 Chapters (заполнить через /yt-chapters после монтажа) Two brothers in Chicago selling a box that let a battery radio run off household current. The car radio that gave the company its name. The two-way radios the US Army carried through the war, and the customers that shaped everything after: armies, police forces, taxi fleets - buyers who judged range and durability, not shape. The call made from a sidewalk in 1973. The $3,995 handset of 1983. Sixty-six satellites that went into orbit and into bankruptcy inside two years. The flip phone that sold in numbers almost nothing has matched, and the price cuts that followed it. The split into two companies, and the one of them that is still profitable today. This is a business history: dates, prices, units and the decisions behind them. No invented quotes. Figures carry the year they were reported in. Which American-made thing in your house outlasted the company that made it? Leave it in the comments.