so i hear a lot about how bad the strategy has been ..but what shoudl have been the strategy for Q to have had continued success?
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Modified the royalty lower gradually across the board instead of insisting on the original 4% in perpetuity. Don't be so greedy. The foreign countries have blunted the impact by clawing back hefty fines as punishment. Just because you have gotten away with something phenomenal for decades does not mean you should or could do so forever.
Thanks -wwa. I <3 u
U will see q in the 80 range by year end
I promised
Q should have done what Hock Tan said should be one, and is what Q is doing right now—-divest all but the franchise, reward the stockholders, and cut expenses. Hock Tan gave SM the game plan and SM is executing it. Question is, from whom will SM get his next leadership idea?
The company supported empire builders over innovators. The people who were trying to create the next portfolio of billion dollar products were forced to spend their time producing endless PowerPoints to justify their projects to small minded finance people. Great product prototypes were discarded because they didn't align with the pet projects of brown nosed has beens (or never weres). The unorthodoxy and risk taking that gave us CDMA ceased to be valued, and those people were marginalized.
Sell to broadcomm. At least Hock is a capable executive with vision.
We should have cut the over reliance on licensing revenue long back. It is an outdated model that is too litigation prone. Even after jana specifically told us to, our execs were arrogant and smug to turn it down. And please, stop being so modem centric. We should have boarded the AI/ML train 4-5 years back. I can go on and on .. bottom line this incompetent management should have been fired in 2015 at tbe very latest after 810 fiasco.
We are not the CEO, Steve, you are. Funny that you ask us how to do your job. You never knew what you were doing. The first thing you should have done was to understand what the various parts of the company were doing. In one of your first all hands you said you were going to trust your luitenents rather than have your tentacles into the business. Right there you sealed Qualcomms future, which is why we are here today. You have never shown much interest in Qualcomm, beyond your leaching money from us for yourself.