Steady on Mucho. Get a grip. <...what matters is the money, not the technology. technology is for geeks, money is for survivors. MSFT showed it, now GSM is showing it.
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Technology plus money still wins and CDMA is the el supremo technology. Wait until the serious competitive selling gets under way based on price instead of marketing flim-flam and we'll see which technology stays in business. Then, watch what happens when fast cyberspace technology is available in mobile gadgets.
GSM is not showing any such thing. Technology isn't for geeks, it's for people, commonly called customers, who have money. Those money-bearing people buy good technology which does what they think is a good thing at what they think is a good price.
CDMA continues to increase market share worldwide despite a late start, being still embryonic in China and many other countries.
GSM is obsolete, which doesn't mean it dies immediately. It carries on, like my obsolete things, until I can't extract more value out of it and I make the big jump to the next thing.
We [our family] used to have all analogue phones. Then we had all GSM phones. Now we have 50% CDMA phones. That will be 100% in about a year. 1xRTT will be next in line - starting in July.
We have had analogue, TDMA, GSM and CDMA in direct competition here. TDMA and analogue have missed out. GSM is rapidly losing market share to CDMA. VERY rapidly. That process will accelerate.
Now, back to your normal, reasonable, sensible, feet on the ground self.
Mqurice
PS: Microsoft is our software supplier because their technology and price ratio was far better than alternatives. I love it when Windows XP tells me that a download is ready to be installed. I click "Okay" and Microsoft does the maintenance for me. That's cool! Microsoft's software is amazingly cheap, which shows the wondrous advantage of a large human population, low unit costs, and cyberspace. |
