Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:
>
> What would have been different, though if Japan had adopted a standard, is
> that Japanese manufacturers would be leading suppliers of either GSM or
> CDMA equipment (or both), depending on which standard they would have
> chosen. They would still have built smaller and lighter phones with colour
> displays.
If Japan had adopted GSM or CDMA (they may have for all I know),
the US and Europe probably would have adopted something else. Some phones
in Japan say cdma1 on them. And some of those work worldwide. Is that
the same CDMA you are talking about? I don't know. This is something
I wish to know.
Japan was first in a lot of this stuff, I think. Why didn't Europe and the US
follow Japan? It looks to me like the US and Europe
did not want Japan to supply their parts, because that would have put some major
players in those countries out of the game.
You make it seem like "Japan" is stupid, but maybe its that the "US" and "Europe"
out maneuvered "them" Its been done before.
Standards are not always followed. And there are often competing standards.
Some "standards" that aren't followed uniformly: WAP, SQL, HTML, JavaScript~(???), Java.
Some standards that are competing worldwide: temperature (F vs C), Electric Voltage Sockets, VCR
types,
(MFi SMAF midi and smd), television frequencies, etc etc.
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Received on Tue Jul 31 15:31:05 2001