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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2717)	11/13/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

The response to Neopoint and pdQ seems muted. Do you have any data to support this, or is it just your feeling? By the way, the response to 3Com's Palm VII PDA, which has wireless internet access appears to be very enthusiastic in the US. It uses Bell South's TDMA wireless network, but can be easily modified to support any air interface technology.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (2717)	11/14/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 34857

christina-a.com Gee Tero, the Web is a wonderful thing. <If you think that the Q division will be a gift from heaven to some other manufacturer, that's fine. But I don't think you can wrap a pig in spandex and pass it off as Christina Aguileira. That's not how brand management works.> I was curious about what a pig in Spandex might look like. I don't think that is a pig so I guess that isn't Spandex [whatever Spandex is]. I agree with you on measuring sales by profits, not handset numbers. If the parts shortage was a problem, the margins should have been higher. You have modestly refrained from enthusiastic gloating about your prediction that the scale of operation for Qualcomm's handset division would not sustain the operation in the face of large competitors with great brands, design teams, economies of scale and high speed product cycle times. I'm delighted that Qualcomm did NOT pursue the idea which many Qualcomm enthusiasts promoted of using a royalty and ASIC subsidy to keep the division afloat. When the USA finally ditches the absurd rule of the cellphone subscriber paying for incoming calls, the use of cellphones there will accelerate hugely. Don't you think that must have a major impact on the acceptance of cellphones? Maybe the wireline companies have paid huge fees to the appropriate authorities to keep the policy intact. I bet the cellphone operators are screaming. Maybe they haven't figured out just how damaging it is. The USA has about the biggest GNP per capita after Japan and Switzerland, so they can afford to make calls if they want to. Have a little gloat while you can. Maurice PS: I did a search for Spandex and got some urls which are R18, so I haven't included them here. But for those curious, NOTHING would look good in Spandex. But there is a real company and I guess they produce the stuff which some people choose to wear for reasons I won't guess at. Good, found some wholesome Spandex pictures. geocities.com