I remember thinking on some slower week that I wish this thread would get weirder, maybe the volume would increase. Some dark and malevolent deity must have heard me. There is no fate crueler than getting what you hope for, now I finally understand it.
A) How on earth was I supposed to know that Qualcomm's CEO is Jewish? Businessweek doesn't print lists of Jewish company owners for some reason. And even if I had known, is it then taboo to call this company a leech? What if he's fat as well? Shouldn't I then call Qualcomm greedy? I try to keep up with this "political correctness" you have in USA; I never describe Asian people as inscrutable, I never talk to African-Americans about basketball. It's getting just a little paranoid if I have to find out about the religious beliefs of the personnel of the companies I discuss. God help me if Galvin is an animist or something... I bet I'll get deported the next time I visit USA.
B) I don't think that the W-CDMA has anyting to do with wether IS-95 is going to ever get more than 20% of the global market share.
Qualcomm is gaining market share, because so many American operators chose to deploy IS-95; it means that there is an inevitable early boom for CDMA phones. Doesn't tell anything about sustaining momentum after consumers have started to actually compare phones. "Japanese" have not chosen IS-95, one desperate little wanna-be company that nobody has ever heard of has. NTT is solidly backing W-CDMA. Anyway you cut it, Qualcomm's standard will remain a niche standard. Niche, niche, niche, niche. Get used to the word... you'll be hearing it a lot from people discussing this company.
C) Maurice, Nokia just shared the specs for its breakthrough EFR technology for improving GSM voice quality with the rest of the GSM community. Just for kicks, here is one of the WWW's leading GSM gurus slamming Motorola's most recent phone for lacking EFR:
webwombat.com.au
And this marvelous technological advance was shared *freely* and *willingly* by Nokia. They are not asking 3% cut from other manufacturers for implementing the feature. They are not attempting to stop the technological advancement. Nokia stands for open standards,
free exchange of ideas and rapid development of GSM. This openness and goodwill it generates will ultimately win the day for GSM. And Nokia trusts itself to come up with further improvements, so they can literally hand out breakthroughs to competitors. The critique above shows what happens to companies that refuse to implement Nokia's ideas... they get left behind
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