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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (24057)	6/22/2002 11:13:59 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196568

With the standards difficulties brewing in the Java camp, I'd be interested in hearing people's opinions on what this means for Sprint. Vendors will be working together and independently to influence the new MIDP standard to benefit themselves. Sprint has come to the Java party fairly late, since there are already at least 24 million Java phones out there. Sprint is an outsider, a CDMA devil, from the perspective of all other Java implementers. Thus they (GPRS crowd) will be likely to freeze Sprint out of the inner circle creating the new standard. If MIDP 2.0 does not offer anything to Sprint, and does offer a decent standard to others, in reference to a standard set of APIs for music, sound, graphics, photos, video, security, etc. etc., then what will happen to the developer's who have to write for Sprint's now non-standard Java? WIll they stay loyal? It's on thing to get your fair share of developers when there are twenty different Javas, and another thing to get your fair share if the other 19 have banded together and standardized. On the other hand, this standardization, if it works at all, is a year out, and if Sprint delivers on 1X in a big way, they'll establish themselves as a premier platform on which to run software. Remember, there may be 24 million Java phones today, but that's a far cry from 24 million users! Has Sprint's choice of not implementing the Brew platform hurt them in a significant way in the long run? Has it hurt CDMA and Qualcomm in the long run?