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I'm the guy thinking up stupid ideas for silly products - - -

I invented the concept of a 45-year old broadcast TV you carry around in your pocket, using all custom chipsets that must be built in-house.
I invented the concept of beaming B-movies (Q Box) into your phone as I shop for caviar at Bristol Farms grocery store
I invented the concept of multi-hop packet forwarding between jetliners over the atlantic ocean, to provide internet to 1st-class passengers.
I frequently create "buy and bury" products that Qualcomm uses to blackmail one service provider to buy just to deny it to another service provider.

All these ideas are mine and I give them to my VP so that he gets all the credit, and then he pitches them to Corp R&D leadership which has to accept half of them no matter what just to keep all ~500 PhDs doing something besides playing videogames in the deluxe break room on the 5th floor of QRC.

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I call B.S. on OP. No one with class (--or who knows food--) buys their caviar from Bristol Farms. Most of the time they just have those tiny tins of Sevruga--or maybe broken Ostrega eggs.

Risks are a part of doing business. If you're not willing to diversify, you have single point of failure.

its R&D failure which is major contributing factor in current miserable state of qualcomm... QRC folks taking credit for all royalty revenue money and justifying lavish spending in country club lifestyle while QCT folks slogging like dogs to ship stuff and bring money in...

I also wonder what all those phd's do? I could not come up with next big thing which is successful.....We burned lot of money in failed Qchat,MFLO,QMT experiments etc..and we spend ~5B/year in R&D? Its seems most of their efforts to make cellular technology complicated to delay commoditization and extend lic fee we get...

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