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

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (30773)	1/6/2003 10:13:22 AM
From: Jim Mullens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196668

Art- Regarding Microsoft, perhaps Qualcomm saw a similar situation developing with Wireless Knowledge and thus opted out of that joint venture with MSFT.

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (30773)	1/6/2003 12:13:30 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 196668

For once I totally agree with you Art. Microsoft is a late adopter and not a particularly inventing type company. The hardware they produce is done from a software centric point of view and people that want to do something which makes the hardware good at the expense of making differnt software get voted out real quick. Dealing with them early on on data was a very frustrating thing. We wanted to do packet data which is how most data networks run today, but they went outside around to all the carriers and sold them all on the "killer app" that was their legacy code of dailup networks. What happened was they convinced the carriers to go with dailup wireless connections and basically sidetracked all the resources to work on that. Once it was in place, people found that you could not keep a wireless connection up all the time and a dropped call was disasterous to the system. With packet, you only need the connection to stay up for one packet at a time. It basically set back wireless data for about 3 years. In fact if you look at the login stuff for VZ data you will find it is still a hack on top of packet called quick net connect, which is using old style dialup software hacked to work in packet mode. In all casesd when we decided to develop something at Qualcomm, we usually tried to look out 5-10 years at where we wanted to be and said "why not", instead of looking at what has already been and saying "why isn't it ours".