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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 (196889)12/10/2025 3:45:16 PM
From: Optntrdr19992 Recommendations

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  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 196986
 
you guys are all confirming my point....but your analysis forgets the required backwards compatibility requirements... and if it was that simple to move past qcom patents and increasing technology advancements - aapl, mediatek etal would have already made strides to parallel qcom performance - and they have not



To: waitwatchwander who wrote (196889)12/10/2025 8:49:12 PM
From: engineer9 Recommendations

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  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 196986
 
if they want to stay 17 years behind the state of the art, then they can play that game, but there are tons of patents done every month that extend the range of the coverage. sat stuff, 6G stuff, new modulations, etc.

only a technically very stupid person would go down that rat hole.