Everybody seems to assume that 5G is the next big thing that will make Qualcomm and America great again. Reality may be different. Is 5G all really hype? Below article from wired.
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/the-next-generation-of-wireless-5g-is-all-hype/
Lullaby story!!!
There goes this story,
Long long time ago, there was a company who thought 2G will change the world and that is it !
Then it thought 3G will change the world and that is it !
Later it thought 4G will change the world and that is it !
Now, it thinks it will reap all the profits of 5G and this is it !
C'mon get ready for 6G promises. I think Chinese are on it :P
Face palm, shareholders!!!
Every alternate technology growth will not do well. Darwins theory applicable here as well :)
@rdb Which market brochure did you take the stuff about „distributed computation - i.e. self-driving cars“ from?
First of all, where is the standard which makes self-driving cars from different manufacturers work together?
Second, where is the law that mandates all cars (self-driving or not) to use that standard from one day to the next (otherwise it will be 100% pointless)?
Third, why would 5G be required to enable this?
I am reminded by how video telephony was supposed to be the big killer feature for 3G. When you said 3G adoption would be slow, people went „But... but... video calls!!!“ (I am serious, if you were in the business 20 years ago, you‘ll remember it) What eventually drove 3G and then 4G was not some killer feature, but bandwidth. 5G also won‘t be driven by self-driving cars or IoT or VR but by bandwidth. If people are happy with 4G bandwidths or if Wifi coverage is near-ubiquitous, then forget about 5G. I am sure some people always need more bandwidth, but I am completely happy with 4G. As far as I am concerned, 5G is solving problems that I don‘t have.
5g is the gold mine qcom is gonna hit..
It would take qcom eps to 20.
What about distributed computation?....ie self driving cars. Lots of bandwidth and low latency without the need for fiber.
He makes some good points otherwise.
Wow! Very interesting! So what's going to save the day?
I agree with the article