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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (90176)	3/10/2010 11:38:58 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 197217

Maurice, you raise an intriguing thought: There really isn't any reason that Qualcomm in 1995 couldn't have got the handset business going with innovative designs. Innovative designs of course include both software and hardware. Apple has done a great job inducing software specialists to write programs that run on its phones and computers. Qualcomm has chosen to buy firms that have interesting software applications (banking, location based advertising, etc.), but I wonder, given your thoughts, whether QCOM would have been better off contracting with the firms rather than buying them. When QCOM was still producing phones way back when, they did a lot of advertising of their "thin phone," which at the time looked quite good when compared with most of the bricks being sold. I used one of the thin phones on the Sprint network and found that the chief problem was that it got awfully hot in areas somewhat removed from the base station antenna. It takes more than good looks to sell a product, though that helps. Art

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