HEDP
join:2008-04-27
Miami, FL
| reply to NOCMan
Re: Qualcomm being Qualcomm
"What the hell does 911 have to do with 2 standards actually 3 if you include iDEN and choice?"
I am asking myself the same question about the OP.
"Everyone being on GSM would of given everyone choice of carrier and phone without any barriers to move to different companies. That is why GSM is a standard on nearly a global scale. Not to mention GSM was a product of choice and collaboration to produce a standard that has worked very well. CDMA is a patented vendor walled garden owned by Qualcomm who appears to have ripped off patents from GSM chipmakers."
I can rewrite those entire three sentences and plug in CDMA right in. The decision to port your phone over to another network is based on the carrier. CDMA is more restricted in this area and even then CDMA is a standard that will eventually be replaced with the overhyped WiMAX eventually as the technology improves.
You think that being restricted to one choice is a good thing, well if that where the case then the 52 million CDMA subscribers that are on Sprint's network or the other 72 million users on Verizon's network are doing the wrong thing. It seems that walled garden provides better quality at a price of handset restriction.
There is a reason why GSM isn't the only standard and that's because some people believe that having a entire infrastructure based on one standard will simply leave to less innovative products and in the end create a monopolized market where nothing can flourish.
Apple is simply a phone maker, not a network operator. The real reason is because Apple had contracts before in the past with Cingular which influenced them to only release the product on a GSM based network.
There are news reports that the first person Apple has gone to was actually Verizon Wireless a CDMA based carrier. The reason for that was the restriction that the chipsets themselves have raising the price of the iPhone through the roof. To keep costs low in the end the iPhone was released with slow data speeds a huge bottleneck to what the true purpose of the iPhone could of been.
Also diesel gets better mileage and some blends are easier to refine than others. Gas costs more to refine and is a more complex blend, there is a reason why diesel is used in some applications compared to gas.
Also glad that you mentioned gas, guess what we all run gas, because it's the standard right? Well guess what? Now we are getting our asses handed to us paying up the nose for it because an alternative was never brought into this industry.
Just now alternatives such as electronic engines in passenger vehicles are starting to come to market, because your BS standard of fuel has everyone running with their head cut off.
I don't care if there are 20 standards out there, which ever standard is superior and provides the most flexibility is the standard that's going to win, and there would always be another standard out there to replace it. |
