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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 181.84+0.9%Jan 8 3:59 PM EST
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To: Apollo who wrote (48421)11/4/2005 12:35:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn   of 197124
 
Apollo, if you mean something like Google, I suppose BREW could end up being like that.

While it seems to be just a silly games system at present, my understanding is that it enables any software to be downloaded into a cyberphone and run on it.

What I like about it is that it'll mean no viruses or muck coming with the software, it'll work really well [being integrated with the rest of the cyberphone and from QUALCOMM], it will provide money to the software maker [no stealing of software], money to the carrier and money to QCOM, it'll mean I don't have to mess around with my device to try to make it work. I like easy clicking, not being technoliterate.

As OFDM/wifi make moving a LOT of data economic and convenient enough, less software will need to sit in the cyberphone and as cyberphone memory and processing power improve, they'll be able to do more tricks, and store more software.

The possible revenue and profits from BREW are vast. Competitors will limit the scope, as they do with Google, but that still leaves a LOT of money, if BREW is the best way of doing it. Or at least is as good and is first out there and gains market share so software developers prefer to work on the biggest market share, where they get paid.

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