Briefly: Verizon iPhone Qualcomm baseband, Netgear CEO apologizes, Apple looking for more LTE engine

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  • Reply 21 of 36
    No way they can bring me back again as a customer.
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  • Reply 22 of 36
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    Don't paint me a racist, but his surname does not appear to reflect that his mother tongue is English. So perhaps it is more to do with a lack of communications than anything sinister.

    So I will give him the benefit of the doubt (the nice guy I am), but I don't agree with all the crap he is saying.

    When, oh when will this open vs closed phrase be thrown out onto the scrap heap ?

    Its worse than any Communists rallying cry, really, its so annoying when the fandroids scream this out at the tops of their lungs. Its all lies, they know it and we know it, but why do they still use it ?



    English is not his first language, but he was raised in Hong Kong, got his college education at Brown University, and has been living and working in the US most of the time since he started college over 30 years ago.
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  • Reply 23 of 36
    wovelwovel Posts: 956member
    Am I the only one wondering why Lo cares about Apple and flash..
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  • Reply 24 of 36
    I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during whatever meeting resulted in Mr Lo apologizing.
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  • Reply 25 of 36
    quinneyquinney Posts: 2,528member
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    That's what I meant!



    I liked the way you said it.

    You left nothing of Lo but a grease spot.
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  • Reply 26 of 36
    To have such a fool as a CEO. Why pick a fight with the most successful and biggest technology company in an area that does not even concern him? "openness" A silly pet cause, a half baked idea that has yet to prove its usefulness.



    In doing so, not only did he expose his poor judgement but also his poor taste and alienated many Apple customers, in the name of some soapbox dead-horse speech that others have already beaten to death.



    Funny he talks about "ego" when he criticizes a company 300 times as big as his. Quick! Someone recruit this guy!
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  • Reply 27 of 36
    I remember reading a really long time ago that Apple was thinking about going the MVNO route with the original iPhone and rebrand cell service as its own. More recently, I read that Apple had a patent (or so I recall) for a system that would allow carriers to bid against one another to get the lowest rate. They'd probably never do this, but if they used this system with both CDMA and GSM carriers on a dual-mode iPhone, it could switch between carriers offering the lowest wholesale rate in that area. Then maybe the savings could be passed to the customer or something. Probably would never happen, but it's something to think about.
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  • Reply 28 of 36
    anonymouseanonymouse Posts: 7,124member
    Maybe this would be a good time for Patrick Lo to spend more time with his family.
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  • Reply 29 of 36
    buzdotsbuzdots Posts: 452member
    Better get a big metal hat, 'cause shit falling from high above hurts and smells.
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  • Reply 30 of 36
    newbeenewbee Posts: 2,055member
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    Goodbye until Summer. (sig. line)



    Goodbye until Summer? Goodbye until Summer? .... Hell, I've seen some wives that left faster than you. ....

    P.S. Have a good holiday!
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  • Reply 31 of 36
    realisticrealistic Posts: 1,154member
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    Originally Posted by appler0x View Post


    I remember reading a really long time ago that Apple was thinking about going the MVNO route with the original iPhone and rebrand cell service as its own. More recently, I read that Apple had a patent (or so I recall) for a system that would allow carriers to bid against one another to get the lowest rate. They'd probably never do this, but if they used this system with both CDMA and GSM carriers on a dual-mode iPhone, it could switch between carriers offering the lowest wholesale rate in that area. Then maybe the savings could be passed to the customer or something. Probably would never happen, but it's something to think about.



    In a perfect world this would be great but unfortunately this world is far from being perfect.
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  • Reply 32 of 36
    newbeenewbee Posts: 2,055member
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    Originally Posted by appler0x View Post


    I remember reading a really long time ago that Apple was thinking about going the MVNO route with the original iPhone and rebrand cell service as its own. More recently, I read that Apple had a patent (or so I recall) for a system that would allow carriers to bid against one another to get the lowest rate. They'd probably never do this, but if they used this system with both CDMA and GSM carriers on a dual-mode iPhone, it could switch between carriers offering the lowest wholesale rate in that area. Then maybe the savings could be passed to the customer or something. Probably would never happen, but it's something to think about.



    Let's not forget the billions of $$$ worth of infrastructure that someone has to invest in .... with no guarantee of profits. Do we really expect or even deserve "everything" for nothing? While excessive greed "may" be considered "evil" .... there's nothing wrong with reasonable profits.
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  • Reply 33 of 36
    bedouinbedouin Posts: 331member
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    With all that source code available for their routers you'd think more homebrew firmware would emerge. Maybe I have just never stumbled upon it . . .
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  • Reply 34 of 36
    jfanningjfanning Posts: 3,398member
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    Way to prove my point. RIF!



    What? That most of your posts are wrong and a waste of time?
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  • Reply 35 of 36
    jfanningjfanning Posts: 3,398member
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    With all that source code available for their routers you'd think more homebrew firmware would emerge. Maybe I have just never stumbled upon it . . .



    There are a number of alterative firmware available for Netgear routers
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