Qualcomm got where they got today in part due to their CDMA modem patent revenue. UMB was Qualcomm's proprietary replacement for CDMA that was intended to compete with LTE.
Luckily, the general industry smartened up and went with a partnership standard like 3GPP2. As CDMA support dwindles around the world, Qualcomm is just taking larger and larger hits to their bottom line, relative to what they were before.
Qualcomm has always been perceived as (and actually been) expensive and proprietary in the telecom world, so this should be no surprise when someone else comes to the market for a better price. Apple can probably easily pay to defend this suit purely based on the financial savings of switching to Intel.
This is the same as (or similar to) that happened to Nortel...they had a lot of debt, were hemorrhaging money, but will had decent revenue and profits from some of the centers. January 14, 2009 they filed for chapter 11 under the guise that it would help them focus on restructuring...a few months later they sold the profitable elements to other companies (including a chunk to Avaya I believe) leaving the unpolished turds behind to die (which in all honesty, wasn't that much). They were unable to see how to stop the extensive spending, especially in areas like manager and executive salaries and the like.
My opinion is they are not going to make it out...Telecom is consolidating, and the profitable stuff will just be absorbed by other companies while the shit circles the drain.
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Luckily, the general industry smartened up and went with a partnership standard like 3GPP2.
I need to correct myself.
That should read 3GPP not 3GPP2.
One acronym: CDMA
Another acronym: UMB
Qualcomm got where they got today in part due to their CDMA modem patent revenue. UMB was Qualcomm's proprietary replacement for CDMA that was intended to compete with LTE.
Luckily, the general industry smartened up and went with a partnership standard like 3GPP2. As CDMA support dwindles around the world, Qualcomm is just taking larger and larger hits to their bottom line, relative to what they were before.
Qualcomm has always been perceived as (and actually been) expensive and proprietary in the telecom world, so this should be no surprise when someone else comes to the market for a better price. Apple can probably easily pay to defend this suit purely based on the financial savings of switching to Intel.
Nicolas cage did just fine!
Then feel free to "translate" it for Simple Wikipedia
I perfect opportunity...wasted
What, so I can pretend to be cool with a raspberry pi idling away on this wifi network?
*slow clap*
Surprised it took this long in the discussion to come up. +1
Surely there can be some middle ground:
https://www.youtube.com/result...
This is the same as (or similar to) that happened to Nortel...they had a lot of debt, were hemorrhaging money, but will had decent revenue and profits from some of the centers. January 14, 2009 they filed for chapter 11 under the guise that it would help them focus on restructuring...a few months later they sold the profitable elements to other companies (including a chunk to Avaya I believe) leaving the unpolished turds behind to die (which in all honesty, wasn't that much). They were unable to see how to stop the extensive spending, especially in areas like manager and executive salaries and the like.
My opinion is they are not going to make it out...Telecom is consolidating, and the profitable stuff will just be absorbed by other companies while the shit circles the drain.
At least credit the source for your punchline:
https://xkcd.com/1367/
Unless you, y'know, disable overscanning...
Correction: the free certs only vouch that you admin the domain name, nothing more. That is not the same as trusting an individual or organization
Hmm, it appears even the trolls didn't know what to say about this article...
Or another company trying to implement envelope tracking for base stations.
Thank you for returning sanity to the discussion.
Anyone else remember AllAdvantage?
They damn well better issue a patch to remove all the nagware then. Yes I know it can be disabled, but it shouldn't be there to begin with.
what^H^H^H^Hwho
Are you sure it is Samsung? An 'o' turns into an 'a' so easily. Enjoy your Somsung
umm, wut?
What is "free citizen" you speak of?
Hisssssss
At minimum it was covered in either Freakonomics or Superfreakonomics.... at least 5 years ago...