If you want to build morale at a company you acquired, there are certain words you might want not to utter in public as the parent company. For instance: “Motorola has a pipeline of products that were fine but not really to the standards that Google would say is wow — innovative, transformative.”
That’s Google’s Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference. It gets worse.
Here’s another tidbit that makes Motorola’s upcoming phone lineup seem like the wireless equivalent of a cyst. “We’ve inherited 18 months of timeline that we actually have to drain right now.”
