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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2298)	10/15/2000 4:21:25 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12245

wow, a Maurice and CR battle, it is almost like old times.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2298)	10/16/2000 2:01:38 AM
From: qdog	Respond to of 12245

If they raise their OS price [which a true monopolist could do to the sky] they will find customers dropping away very quickly as a myriad of other communication methods are adopted. Which is exactly what they have done, because they had no competition. Intel now has competition in AMD and it for real. AMD is right now, beating Intel to the punch in rolling out faster chips. That not a good thing? Cheaper prices and better innovation, sounds good to me. Now that Mr. Softie has to compete and do it fairly, without it Mafia tactics in threatening companies that don't comform. Oh yeah, there is PLENTY of historic action to back that up. Compaq had to take Mr. Softie to the legal authorities over whether Compaq could put the AOL icon on their machines. IBM not getting advance codes on Win 95 until one week before release. Gee, wonder why that was? Could it be that IBM owned Lotus and was still trying to promote OS2 at the time? Nah, that couldn't be it. QCOM is much more a monopoly than MSFT ever was. Q! has TOTAL control of CDMA. Nobody, but nobody can use Q! technology without passing through the monopolistic toll gate. Q! is also leveraging that monopoly into other fields such as SnapTrack, Email, WirelessKnowledge [in cahoots with that other evil monopolist Microsoft]. Q! has a much better monopoly than MSFT because Q! has the force of law behind their monopoly - patent law, backed by no less than the most powerful legal and military system to ever roam the planet. Since Q! will feed that legal/military system by taxing the rest of the world via the CDMA monopoly, I doubt that the US government will even introduce price control on Q! Microsoft is on the edge of communications, QCOM is the pipe. Big difference. When it comes to the pipe, there are plenty of choices and there are plenty of competition, all of which Mr. Softie ties to at a far higher rate than they do wirelessly. As far as this notion that QCOM owns CDMA, that not true. Only CDMA that uses it patents and not all the standards use them. China's standard is getting some serious review and so far it's been positive. It uses Siemens patents and there is still a real possibility that it will be used. QCOM CDMA portfolio doesn't cover CDMA in other non wireless applications. Narrowband cellular is not the dominate means of providing a pipe. It has competition. As Mr. Softie has done to plenty of companies, if it free, 5% of $0 is ZERO. That what they did to Spyglass, whose browser they used to "compete" with Netscape. They kill them both off as companies. One they killed by not paying royalties on free and the other they did to secure the majority of the market. I favor competition, alway have and will always. I care not to protect an industry because of what effect it may nave on it stock or the market in general. Competition spurs innovation and lower prices which makes the technology or product avaiable to all. What a great concept.