qdog, nice to see you around still. You know, QUALCOMM controls 100% of the CDMA market in space through Globalstar. There is NO other way to communicate via a phone with no voice delay out in the desert, CDMA or not. They dominate not just the CDMA market, but the WHOLE market. They are leveraging that monopoly into terrestrial services too. They have a multimode Globalstar phone which people HAVE to buy to get Globalstar. That phone then works in analogue, AND terrestrial CDMA too. All are bundled into the one unit. They bundle lots of software in too.
They have got SnapTrack and other software being worked into ASICs and networks on a buy one, buy all basis. Heck, if you are worried about market share of something, check out QUALCOMM.
They also control 100% of the free email with huge functionality market. Sure there are other email programmes, but nothing like Eudora. QUALCOMM has about 90% of the CDMA ASIC market and they are bundling and leverage flat out in that market, using their ASIC monopoly to leverage sales of other products. They have 100% of the truck-tracking and fleet management market using CDMA with the other functionality of OmniTRACS.
I'm surprised the Hagfish Guild hasn't started an antitrust case against Q! for leveraging their CDMA and ASIC total market dominance into greedy royalties of 5%.
Q! is also fixin' to leverage their phone OS to dominate the WIt browsing market, just as you say MSFT leveraged their OS to dominate the wired browsing market. Looks the same to me. But Q! is leveraging a LOT more.
There have been hordes of OS all along. The antitrust attack on Microsoft and the American Dream, not to mention a legion of shareholders and happy users of MSFT did NOT create new OS or even provide conditions in which they could grow. There were always many and Linux was well underway early in the 1990s before browsers were heard of.
If Microsoft is failing in growth due to the attack and the resulting distraction, I can't see why any American would be proud of that. People say MSFT isn't innovative. How come their OS continues to be the best if that is true? Windows2000 is great. It has all sorts of features and functionality and innovations.
Choice is the heart of the matter and choice means freedom and that's exactly what everyone has until the huge monopolist Alice In Wonderland Joel Klein entered the picture armed with a law saying "All Transactions are Illegal Unless You are found Innocent".
How many thousand antitrust cases are held each year? There should be literally thousands. I bet there are not. It is really all about whining competitors who can't do a good job and want government support.
qdog, you say Q! doesn't control 50% of the technology in wireless. You are drawing the net too wide. When the antitrust people get on the loose, they don't leave it that wide. They defined OS to be OS which work on Intel Pentium chips. Not OS market value or OS varieties. MSFT just has the most popular OS. If you consider not wireless, but CDMA wireless, then Q! has got 90% market share.
IBM did dominate computing for ages and the antitrust attack didn't change that. The market and technology changed. The PC arrived like a hurricane and competitors climbed all over IBM. The government was just a leech. In the early 1980s, IBM was as arrogant as heck and computer people bought the 'safety' of IBM, but it was still choice. Then, in a few short years, it became totally uncool to buy IBM and Dell took off.
AT&T dominance was a government-protected and caused monopoly. For decades, nobody was allowed to compete with the telephone companies. They were licensed or even government-owned. That's where the monopoly arose. The government in the USA is even now absurdly controlling who cna provide what services to whom and where etc. That is wacky!
I'll be watching out for warnings of attacks on QUALCOMM. Let's hope they keep up the political 'donations'. It does sound very much like a common protection racket.
I wonder why Microsoft has started making political donations having not done so until very recent times. Any idea why that might be?
Do you have any links to the exact laws which were allegedly broken by Microsoft and the exact actions which they took which broke those laws?
Convinced?
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