<That’s the forecast you measured on the screen with your ruler, that said CDMA subs (exclusive of WCDMA would reach 400 million by 2005 end, compared to the 365 million EMC is now showing in the Qualcomm slides. That far out, of course, is crystal ball voodoo.>
It suddenly occurred to me that cyberspace is indeed a matter of peering into a crystal ball. Many of us do it for hours. The future is indeed murky in the ball. But it is alluring.
Graphs on the screen, with projections to the sky for Amazon, Yahoo! Globalstar, Lucent, QUALCOMM, Ericy and a lot more besides were just crystal ball fantasies.
It's back to the daily grind out in 3D reality now, with icky, sweaty, grumpy customers buying stuff, or not buying it, depending on how they feel at the time.
I like the 1 billion prophecy in the next couple of years. Eventually, they'll nearly all be CDMA customers [2010 or thereabouts], with another billion as well.
From this side of the crystal ball.
Mqurice
PS: It's a beautiful, sunny, warm, 3D winter's day, so I'll try that out |
