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Technology Stocks : The New Qualcomm - a S&P500 company -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DaveMG who wrote (6981)	2/27/2000 9:19:00 PM
From: quidditch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

I think royalties are psychologically more difficult to pay than "fee per use". Dave, I'm puzzled, what do you mean by this? Why is upgrading to Windows 2000 any different than trading up to a Q2760 dual band or upgrading further to the 1xrtt when it comes out? The only "fee per use" that I am aware of is OmniTraks, where the licensee pays, in effect, message units. AND MSFT had to branch out, to dominate the entire desktop through the applicatios business to retain that "royalty". QCOM will have to do some version of the same, possibly via ASICs. Seems like Wireless Internet Launchpad intends to do exactly that. Best to you and your newborn, Steve