Aside from selling more of them than Apple an RIM combined you mean? A little research wouldn’t kill you.

Anyway…

Motorola’s problem is that they overfocused on one phenomenally successful product – the RAZR – and got left behind because they didn’t anticipate the smartphone market and how it would absorb the high end sales. In the meantime Nokia, Samsung and LG came in and stole their lunch in the featurephone market leaving them nothing much to fall back on.

This is why companies like Nokia, Samsung, LG and even to an extent RIM do not fixate on the top tranche of the market because it’s so volatile. Instead they make sure they have good, solid product propositions for a range of markets (it’s true that people are moving to smartphones however this does not indicate they will all move to expensive smartphones).

If you want a risky business model you can look at Apple’s – unbelievably successful when they’re on top but tomorrow’s Moto if they don’t diversify when fashions change.

Moto just showed up? You do realize they’ve been making smartphones (whither the Q) for years. They’re not exactly rookies in this game.