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

To: kech who wrote (92299)	6/9/2010 11:40:23 AM
From: ggamer	1 Recommendation Respond to of 196612

The problem is not MeidaFlow! The problem is that the wrong company and CEO (QCOM and PJ) is promoting it! I am sure there is a need for the spectrum and for the technology but QCOM does not know how to market them and people do not want to deal with QCOM. It is a simple as that. Again, if you give MediaFlow to Apple and SJ tomorrow, he will make it profitable and there will be people waiting in lines to get it. He will know how to bundle it, price it, and market it. All the TV stations will be waiting for Steve Job to bless them and accept their application to join iFlow. You will have 10 million followers in two to three months. Remember that SJ owns a big portion of Disney and according to the latest news he own 50% of online advertising as well. Now you tell me who is the right person to promote the technology? Here is again a customer comments regarding MediaFlow: UPDATE with a week's experience: The content offerings are just bizarre. I tuned in to 60 Minutes at the regular time on Sunday and got ... the PREVIOUS WEEK'S SHOW! On Thursday on their NBC channel, they showed Community, Parks & Rec, Blind Date, and 30 Rock. Read that carefully: instead of The Office, they substituted some silly reality half-hour. Make no plans and have no expectations with this product! They have added more channels, including ESPN and Disney, and there's some good college hoops on live this T'giving weekend. Still, unless a lot changes in the next few months, when the 6 months free service expires, I will NOT be purchasing the service. I may have bought a $250 paperweight. You can read the rest of the 50 reviews here at amazon.com amazon.com

To: kech who wrote (92299)	6/9/2010 11:41:50 AM
From: waitwatchwander	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196612

---> fuel a pickup of MediaFlo at a greater rate than now That assumes the content people want streamed is available on FLO. FLO was a wonderful idea. However, it's one-way only nature means they have to pick the right stuff, make it ubiquitously available and in an matter that improves upon that which exists today. Without 3g integration and user control, FLO content gets stacked in a million to one manner. LTE/WIMAX also provides the "wonderful" potential of FLO. G* was ubiquitous, FLO optimized the downlink. Both failed in their integration into existing infrastructure and became marginalized by natural industry progression. History is repetitive. In the FLO and G* case, they technically delivered that which was requested but failed miserably on the market requirements front. Lots of holes in the Qualcomm Way.