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To: pyslent who wrote (125516)	11/15/2002 5:17:19 PM
From: samim anbarcioglu	Respond to of 152472

pyslent, <<most of which benefit the carrier, and to a smaller extent, the app writer. >> the app writer gets 80%. i would not call that a 'small extent..' <<A VZ customer does not have the option of surfing to the KDDI BREW store and pick from their offerings. >> i think it would be wonderful if we could get stuff from other CDMA operators' networks. may be that will come too. in fact, i think that's how the business model should have been designed. may be even qcom could keep all of the applications in a huge repository, and the user can see and can buy from the entire catalogue, but has to buy the app through his own service operator, thereby being forced to drop a 10% fee to them for their part in the scheme.