It's the first Samsung 5g phone on the market, the 5g network is still in its very early stages, give it a year and im sure Samsung will have 5g as standard on nearly all its models. Regardless we are both speculating, let's see what happens before pretending like we know it all yeah. You seem to pass your opinions as fact while being very fast to shoot down others.
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Apple Paid an Estimated $5-$6 Billion to Settle Qualcomm Dispute, Plus $8-$9 Per iPhone in Royalty Fees
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5-6 billion dollars you say? That'll add a nice mark-up to 5G iPhones.
Batten down the hatches folks! Price hikes up ahead!
Batten down the hatches folks! Price hikes up ahead!
Apple doesn't have to worry one bit. They can just increase the cost of there hardware onto us to pay any penalty now or in the future.
What’s unbelievable is some posters will discard numbers from an industry recognized analyst working at UBS and then substitute with their own reality.
Seriously no. I don’t believe it. It’s unbelievable.
According to him android phones hit 1Gbps over lte and iPhone 7 were capable of 600Mbps over cellular.
Does anybody know where I can get an iPhone 7 Plus that can get 400 Mbps over cellular.
The intel modem on my iPhone XS max is only getting about 200Mbps.
Holy crap did Apple get played in this settlement. They paid something like $6 Billion for something they could have hammered out for themselves. Total disaster for a technology people are staying away from because of high radiation.
Absolutely holding on to my 8 Plus for another two years. Refuse to help pay this rediculous penalty.
Absolutely holding on to my 8 Plus for another two years. Refuse to help pay this rediculous penalty.
Wow Apple just straight up folded... And there are still delusional people who believe Qualcomm isn't an innovation killing monopoly running roughshod over every single OEM. Hope this doesn't mean Apple will stop helping the feds in their anti-trust investigation against corrupt Qualcomm
What’s unbelievable is that nobody has seen the settlement (which probably will always be sealed) and is taking these numbers as gospel.
I hope that Apple paid that amount, they deserved it. Apple's plan was to use Intel to play off Qualcomm and it failed. Apple also used their own customers in this plan by putting technically inferior modems in their highly priced phones. Tim Cook's plan, which he would of had to sign off or maybe even instigated, failed spectacularly. Apple deserves no sympathy for this.
For those saying that Apple “folded”, I would consider that their main supplier Intel pulled out 5 mins later.
Did Intel pull out because Apple and Qualcomm made up?
Or
Did Apple have to coming begging to Qualcomm because Intel made their intentions clear?
Apple may not really be folding in that their choice was make up with Qualcomm or not have an iPhone 5G in the near future
Did Intel pull out because Apple and Qualcomm made up?
Or
Did Apple have to coming begging to Qualcomm because Intel made their intentions clear?
Apple may not really be folding in that their choice was make up with Qualcomm or not have an iPhone 5G in the near future
As it should be. Apple cannot continue to rely on companies like Qualcomm and Intel. Just the last week alone proved that Intel cannot be depended on as a long term supplier (they already threw in the towel in the 5G modem wars).
Apple developing its own components (chips, modems, etc) is the only long-term viable strategy for them.
[doublepost=1555633959][/doublepost]Keep in mind that the cap is $400 on the royalty. So a $400 phone and a $1000 phone will pay the exact same royalty fee. This bit of information is always left out. On a $1000 phone, a $7.5 royalty fee is effectively 0.75%.
Intel pulled out in January 2019 when Bob Swan was made CEO of Intel. Anyone who was paying attention already knew.
He questioned Intel's modem business when fabs could be better used for high margin Xeon processors. Serving Apple made no sense given modems are relatively low margin and Intel did not have core competency in the area.
There's a reason why Intel showed nothing during MWC2019.
Foxconn, Pegatron, Compal, and Wistron know the royalty fees because they are literally the ones paying Qualcomm.
Apple pays licensing fees to the four manufacturers who then pay Qualcomm. This is not some big secret that only Tim Cook knows.
Very simple point, does anyone know how much Apple payed Qualcomm? We’re not stupid it’s in the billions, but the exact amount? As far as the license per chip, I’m sure the guesstimates are near to the real $$$.
It's years away from widespread deployment in America. The EU, China, Japan, and South Korea are moving ahead with big plans for 5G infrastructure and the integration of mobile devices will play a big part of that. Apple knows they cannot let Samsung and Huawei (who have plans in both mobile devices and infrastructure) have a 2-5 years advantage overseas and not have it drastically affect their bottom line.
Every CEO has to handle the good times and the bad. Tim Cook's been handed a turd with Intel not being able to handle their business. He's polished it and it's now behind Apple and they have 6-8 years room to maneuver.
A drop in Apple’s bucket financially, but a sound investment in the iPhone’s reputation given Qualcomm modems.
Hopefully, we won’t be gauged to recoupe the additional royalties.
Hopefully, we won’t be gauged to recoupe the additional royalties.
I’ll stick to the FACT that Qualcomm lost EVERY SINGLE CASE so far while you can live with the fantasy that they’d somehow turn things around and win this time.
Or are you going to claim those cases somehow don’t count and that Qualcomm didn’t really do anything wrong?