Summary : Irwin Jacobs: Founder of Qualcomm, most notably Irwin conceived the smartphone and sold the concept by taping together a PDA and cellphone
Irwin Jacobs (2017): Founder of Qualcomm, most notably Irwin conceived the smartphone and sold the concept by taping together a PDA and cellphone
- The semiconductor industry would be far smaller had the smartphone not replaced the dumb cell phone and PDA
- The union of these two devices created the foundation for growth in the 2000s
- It was a hard sell
- Few believed there was a market
- The world would be far different had this not happened
