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Old 01-27-2008, 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by dew.man View Post
It's all about consolidate and cross-platform development. The chipset is an enabler and cost saver.

QualComm puts out a chipset that ALLOWS the customer-manufacturer to offer different features to their end-users. Just because this chipset may have WiFi capabilities, in no way obligates the phone maker to add the other hardware/software (ie antenna) to enable this functionallity.

This same practice has long been done in every other industry.

And for those of you using the car/engine example, would it be fair to say that when you buy a cheap chevy sedan it should perform on par with a vette just because they may use the same block?

And how do you justify the premium of a Rolex?
Dont remember the last time that a "cheap chevy sedan had a vette block.

Poor analogy. Would you be pissed if you bought a vette and found it to be slower that a 4 year old vette.

How do i justify a rolex. Easy. its not a piece of shit.
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