To: paul_philp who wrote (53081 ) 11/20/2002 4:13:05 PM From: Mike Buckley Read Replies (2) | Respond to Paul,ease . The longer we live, the more generations that come to pass, the more everyone wants everything to be easy. People eventually aren't going to be satisfied with having to wander into a WiFi-enabled area to access the Net. They'll want it anywhere, anytime, on any device they happen to have with them. Whether it's on their cell phone, their laptop, their desktop, their PDA or the console of their automobile, they'll want access to the Net and won't want to have to depend on WiFi. That's Qualcomm's market. And by the time we get that demanding, it will already have been assumed that we'll want to use the same devices to talk. (Yep, cell phones will be built into laptops or whatever they'll be called when that time comes to be and the billing will be on the same account as our cell phone.)always said (long before he came to this folder) that Qualcomm is potentially at the nexus of voice and data. Though my futuristic skills have improved in the last four or five years, I'm still not quite enough of a visionary to fully comprehend all the ramifications of what he means by that. But I really do believe he has always been onto something. That's why I kept Qualcomm on my radar screen and noticed the red blinking light when Ericsson succumbed.The so-called 3G cell phone will not become the primary (or even secondary) device for access to the Web; WiFi won that market.
