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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ruffian who wrote (1025)	11/15/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12235

Qualcomm and Microsoft benefit most by making HDR happen and breaking the chicken and egg cycle. This will cause panic in the henhouse and they will all start laying HDR eggs so they don't get left out of the WWeb nest. For a small investment, they act as catalyst for an enormous event which might otherwise not happen for another 3 or 4 years. A bit like Qualcomm supplied the handsets to Hutchison in 1995 when Motorola was unable to. Nobody else was even close. Sure, it would have been nice to make money from the handset division and I don't accept that they were too small to do it. It looks like mismanagement having been in the business first and from 1994. If they had formed the right contracts, they would not have been in a parts shortage and they would not have been selling handsets too cheaply [ThinPhone in huge demand and unable to supply means the contracts were too cheap]. The pdQ took too long to get to market. The Q Phone was a bit of a lemon. The connectors on the QCP820 should never have gone to customers in defective quality. They should have been able to make a go of it and be the world beater in CDMA. They had 5 years and great backing from Qualcomm. Sony should have been a big help too. Now, Korea Telecom Freetel, NextWave, Leap and no doubt others, will be rolling out HDR pretty quickly and anyone not looking for an early entry is going to find their customer base dwindling quickly. Microsoft and Qualcomm providing big impetus will make it happen. Those are now giants in the industry. If an elephant or two go wandering in the bush, the bush mice better figure out what it means. Mqurice