rec9140
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join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL
| reply to kamm
Re: Should have used...
said by kamm  :
Or Asus just leave it as it is, GSM-only, concentrating on the 3.2B-strong market instead of wasting a single cent on a 100M US and an additional ~300M worldwide (fractured in smaller markets) user market...
Well all 3.2B are NOT on UMTS/HSDPA are they? Not all GSM carriers have converted to 100% UMTS.....
So your potential is the UMTS/HSDPA SUBSET of those 3.2B users and the subset of data users in the US.
Those numbers will be a lot smaller than 3.2B. There maybe 3.2B GSM and UMTS users. Doesn't make it the better protocol from a technical standpoint. GSM is a dud protocol that has roots of a very non technical nature for its adoption.
Asus can sell to 100% of the market, or lop 50-60% of potential customers off by ignoring the US market and its mixed network environment. Like it or not selling products in the US is what makes companies A LOT OF $$$$ and $$$ is what makes it work. Can some products/companies not sell in the US and still make a profit and succeed?? SURE. The netbook arena will not be one of them.
US consumers and business make a up a large portion of the chunk of potential buyers and ignoring any one factor of them could have potentially deadly effects on your product.
Any product that would be sold as GSM/UMTS only product would be dead for most of the situations I deal with as 100% of them deal only with VZW, Sprint, Alltel, US Cellular .... all 100% CDMA. NOT ONE, ZERO, none, will touch ATT or TMobile. Suggesting to even use another would get you escorted out quite quickly.
Netbooks are on the evaluation table right now.... Any vendor not able to provide a EVDO based netbook, eliminated..... Suggesting to change to one of the HDSPA carriers ATT or TMobile.... career suicide. The ability to replace $1500-3000 laptops with a $400 netbook for what in all purpose is nothing but a terminal on the network???? I am think of some very specific applications that netbooks will fit into quite nicely for me and the savings potential is huge.
The network, plain and simple. Coverage, coverage, coverage. Then reliable, reliable, reliable. Reliable and Coverage??? VZW. Followed by the regional CDMA's and then lastly Sprint.
Show up to a gun fight with a plastic knife and you won't last long.
UMTS coverage in the US is pathetic either between the poor carrier ATT or lack of coverage TMobile.
Would I like to see one standard worldwide. Sure BUT I want a standard thats selected based on its actual performance and not 1930's isolationist and anti US BS. If Ericcson wants to come up with something that can step up to the RF table and show its merits ala [W]CDMA bring it on!
Personally I am not a fan of LTE which VZW is moving towards for 4G. It has some of the same baggage of GSM due to Voda, but from a technical standpoint has merits as well.
said by kamm :
... if I were Asus, I would stick with GSM and UMTS and forget CDMA.
If they use UMTS it WCDMA. Those 3.2B users once converted to UMTS will be in the CDMA column soon. GSM/EDGE is toast...
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