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To: Sawtooth who wrote (21790)	1/21/1999 5:57:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Thanks Tim, re top 10 tech99s Message 7377971 It never ceases to amaze me how much information comes flooding into this thread. Further to those statistics on 75% of Web users having cellphones and four times as many Web users than non-Web users having cellphones, I had a think about those figures and they don't make sense until you grok the meaning fully. It isn't very simple to say out of 100 people how many have cellphones or Web only and how many have both. So I put 100 little 'l's on a piece of paper and it shows that Web and cellphone users really are the same people. Not only that, I suspect that those who have cellphones but not Web are largely borderline technophiles who keep a phone in the glovebox in case the car breaks down. Not Luddites, but definitely not in the vanguard of gear for the 21st century. No phone, no internet = 59 people Internet plus phone.....= 23 people Phone only.................= 12 people Internet only................= 7 people ...................................101 ?!! I guess somebody else was born since they did the market research [in the USA?]. So people who use Eudora are very, very much the leading cellular users and very likely candidates for pdQ and offspring. Non-users will ask them which is the best cellphone to buy. If they see QUALCOMM all day everyday in their Eudora email, that is a good boost for Q! Q-Phones, pdQ! and WirelessKnowledge. I wonder if they will have a Eudora version for pdQ and co. Mqurice PS: In the paper edition of CDMA Spectrum, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft looks like a michievous elf. I think they figured out that Q! would get a market capitalization of Intel, Microsoft and Compaq combined and they wanted in badly. They did it too, with WirelessKnowledge. I hope they didn't kill Eudora as part of the deal.