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CDMA, Cell Phone Standards And Who "Wins"
Fubar writes "Former Qualcomm engineer Steven Den Beste, Captain of the USS Clueless outlines why he thinks the US is primed to overtake Europe and Japan as the technological leader in cell phone technology. He argues it stems from open competition and the use of CDMA."
Microsoft really entered the game of cellphones now (see http://theregister.co.uk/content/54/27453.html for an example), forget the "competition will dope the market" slogan.
... and I thought it was the DMCA!
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Whoops. Better write back to my Congressperson
According to the current poll, CowboyNeal "wins" 58% of the vote.
I really enjoyed this article. The author is correct that this saga has played out hundreds of times between the US and Europe over the years, almost always ending up in European humiliation.
Many examples exist, including Britain's "comet" aircraft, which had a tiny problem with explosive and fatal decompression, leading to the domination of Boeing and the collapse of British aerospace. Then the humiliation of the Concorde being soundly defeated by the Boeing 747, even though the concorde was entirely developed at taxpayer expense.
The europeans now barely even register in the computer industry, with no computer operating systems or chips to speak of, and only minimal software being developed there.
After centuries of global imperialism, the Europeans have been relegated to little more than a mop up crew for the US, even in their own back yard - Yugoslavia.
They are now desperately hosting a "Constitutional Convention" to form a "United States of Europe" (their words) in a vain attempt to compete with the US.
And they are desperate to launch their "Galileo" GPS system as an alternative to the US GPS, but even that is tied up in intra-EU catfighting.
It makes for quite interesting reading and conversations with Europeans, who can't quite cope with their demise in global leadership.