Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

[rob v]

And Qualcomm is a company that's unloved even by its closest allies:

"Seven years ago we did not have international experience, we are just now starting joint venture work," Seon Jong Chung, president of Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) once said. "So seven years ago we followed Qualcomm and the US way. At the time, the US way was more advanced than ours. Later on we found that the US way was not the international way. I'm very sorry, but we committed to such a mistake. We didn't use the modern, standardization approach."

Ouch! Finally realizing they chose a proprietary approach over an open standard. Oh well, I guess they'll fix that on this go around...

jmho. Rob