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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Be Deposed in Qualcomm v. Apple Lawsuit on June 27

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to attend a deposition in the ongoing Apple v. Qualcomm legal battle on June 27, according to Bloomberg.

Cook will be providing testimony as part of Qualcomm's lawsuit against Apple, which accuses the Cupertino-based company of lying to regulators to cause trouble for Qualcomm, leading to investigations in multiple countries.

The United States Federal Trade Commission in January accused Qualcomm of violating the FTC Act by using anticompetitive tactics and abusing its patent portfolio to remain the dominant supplier of LTE chips for smartphones, and in June, a judge ruled that Qualcomm will face an antitrust lawsuit.

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Qualcomm has also faced an antitrust investigation in South Korea, which it accused Apple of interfering in, and it has been fined $1.2 billion by European antitrust regulators for paying Apple to use its LTE chips in iOS devices. In South Korea, Qualcomm was fined 1.03 trillion won, or $902 million.

Qualcomm and Apple have been mired in an ever-escalating legal battle since the beginning of 2017 after Apple levied a $1 billion lawsuit against Qualcomm accusing the company of charging unfair royalties for "technologies they have nothing to do with."

Apple and Apple suppliers have stopped paying licensing fees to Qualcomm in the midst of the lawsuit, and Apple has maintained that Qualcomm's practice of charging a percentage of an iPhone's entire value is excessive. Qualcomm, meanwhile, says its technology is "at the heart of every iPhone."

Following Apple's lawsuit, Qualcomm filed a countersuit accusing Apple of breaching licensing agreements, making false statements, and encouraging regulatory attacks against Qualcomm in several countries.

Qualcomm has since sought import bans on some iPhones in the United States and export bans against the device in China, with Apple retaliating through further patent infringement lawsuits.

Given the legal dispute between the two companies, rumors have suggested Apple is considering eliminating Qualcomm chips from its future devices, instead relying on Intel and MediaTek.

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DaveOP said:
Are you on a cell carrier that would max out an Intel modem? It would be better for everyone if the Qualcomm monopoly on CDMA tech came to an end.
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It’s not just about maxing out the Intel Modem in terms of speed. The Qualcomm Modems have some proprietary features that Apple disabled to maintain performance parity with the inferior spec’d Intel Modems.
 
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My intel modem in my GSM phone sucks donkey.
Lesser bars in areas where I’d get superior reception with the Qualcomm modem.

The intel modem has trouble hanging on to signals.
 
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pierce1979 said:
As an Apple shareholder, they need to settle this, and using intel and (especially) MediaTek is a step backwards for iPhone components.
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Unfortunately, there is no repairing the strained relationship between these two companies of this magnitude without an enormous amount of money being involved, in which case, the consumers will pay for down the line. This will only get messier as this drags on.
 
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IPPlanMan said:
It’s not just about maxing out the Intel Modem in terms of speed. The Qualcomm Modems have some proprietary features that Apple disabled to maintain performance parity with the inferior spec’d Intel Modems.
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That may be true since Intel is just beginning to improve their modem chips. However, previous Intel modem provided better and clearer in call quality than Qualcomm. Qualcomm modem does provide faster download and upload speeds with better coverage. Intel is improving and we’ll see later this year with Intel’s 1GB modem can offer.

In the future, Intel may match or surpass Qualcomm but competition is always good than a monopoly.
 
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DaveOP said:
Are you on a cell carrier that would max out an Intel modem? It would be better for everyone if the Qualcomm monopoly on CDMA tech came to an end.
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Just so you do realize, the LTE and WiFi is also part of the Qualcomm portfolio.
Intel can't make a modem without paying Qualcomm.
Andrew Viterbi was the person that created the fundamental algorithms that make cellular communication possible.
He founded Qualcomm.
You cannot make cellular modems or even WiFi without paying them for patents.
 
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bluespark said:
One who submits to a deposition is "deposed" whether or not he has received a subpoena. This term is used in all English-speaking countries.
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The English word "Depose" means to remove forcefully from office.

The usage as "give a deposition" is legal jargon, and while correct much less common usage for the word unless you're already in a legal context.

Also, in American english at least, an active voice is more common than a passive voice. "I took a test at school today" vs "I was tested at school today". Both are valid English sentences with the same meaning but the first one sounds more proper to an American ear. Same as "I gave a deposition today" vs "I was deposed today". The first one in the active voice sounds more proper even though both are right.

So yeah, the headline was chosen to be sensationalist and make people misread it the first time.
 
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