I'm sure you'd need your $4.5B too, in fact I bet you'd need your $100 if someone owed it to you. Stop acting like someone needing their money is a bad thing
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Qualcomm Got $4.5 Billion From Apple Settlement According to Earnings Release
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Not sure about that. QCOM had $40+B cash from the failed NXP acquisition last year, so it went on $16B buyback splurge instead. QCOM had well over $10B in cash as of Dec 2018.
Apple already owed the royalty but was pending due to litigation.
Again, you don't know the terms, so you can't decide it's a loss for Apple. It could also be a win for both companies, but a lot of people here are assuming Apple got creamed. Highly doubtful.
Are you defending Apple preemptively?
I could be wrong, but I don't think that is what @I7guy was acting like.
I'm defending the facts. No one knows the terms and $4.5B is a drop in the bucket, particularly if AAPL got the terms they wanted longer term.
Apple will drop QCOM like a bad habit in time anyway.
Not going to rehash this but Apple is not thinking it just decided not to pay Qualcomm because...
Honestly, I expected Apple to have bought Qualcomm, take their patents and R&D team, and fire the entire executive team just to spite them.
Seems like something Apple would do, just saying.
Seems like something Apple would do, just saying.
It means Apple will be getting it all back from its customers in one way or other… exactly.
How did you even remotely come to that conclusion with so little additional information?
Nope. Apple didn't cave at at. 
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/01/qualcomm-expects-at-least-4point5-billion-from-apple-settlement.html
Qualcomm said on Wednesday that it expects to receive $4.5 billion to $4.7 billion from its royalty settlement with Apple,
The detail, disclosed in Qualcomm’s second-quarter earnings report, shows that Apple paid a high price to end a legal battle between the two tech giants that spanned multiple continents and threatened Apple’s ability to release a 5G iPhone.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/01/qualcomm-expects-at-least-4point5-billion-from-apple-settlement.html
Qualcomm said on Wednesday that it expects to receive $4.5 billion to $4.7 billion from its royalty settlement with Apple,
The detail, disclosed in Qualcomm’s second-quarter earnings report, shows that Apple paid a high price to end a legal battle between the two tech giants that spanned multiple continents and threatened Apple’s ability to release a 5G iPhone.
Even an educated guess requires a significant amount of information... Otherwise it's just a guess.. AKA making stuff up. There is not a significant amount of information publicly available. Without knowing the terms of the agreement or how much Apple owed Qualcomm from withheld payments how can you make an educated guess?
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-plotted-to-hurt-qualcomm-years-before-it-sued-the-company/
Apple allegedly 'plotted' to hurt Qualcomm years before it sued the company
Before Apple ever filed suit against Qualcomm, the iPhone maker allegedly wanted to hurt the company. And it put those plans down in documents obtained by Qualcomm as the two companies prepared to meet in court.
Slides with details of those documents -- viewed by reporters in court, including CNET -- have now been made public. You can see the full slides here (and below).
In September 2014, a document from Apple titled "QCOM - Future scenarios" detailed ways the company could exert pressure on Qualcomm, including by working with Intel on 4G modems for the iPhone. Apple and its manufacturing partners didn't actually file suit against Qualcomm until more than two years later. A second page of that document, titled "QCM - Options and recommendations (2/2)" revealed that Apple considered it "beneficial to wait to provoke a patent fight until after the end of 2016," when its contracts with Qualcomm would expire.
"They were plotting it for two years," Qualcomm attorney Evan Chesler, of the firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, said during his opening arguments last week. "It was all planned in advance. Every bit of it."
Another Apple internal document from June 2016 said the company wanted to "create leverage by building pressure three ways," according to a slide shown in court. The internal document said, in part, that Apple wanted to "hurt Qualcomm financially" and "put Qualcomm's business model at risk."
Apple had purchased Qualcomm modems for its iPhones for years until the falling out. One 2009 memo said Qualcomm is "widely considered the owner of the strongest patent portfolio for essential and relevant patents for wireless standards."
"Engineering wise, they have been the best," Johny Srouji, Apple's head of semiconductors, said in a March 2015 email.
The earlier memo also noted that while more than half of Qualcomm's patent portfolio was communications and silicon engineering, it "has more significant holdings in other areas, including many areas relevant to Apple." That included media processing, non-cellular communications and hardware. Apple had argued in its lawsuit that Qualcomm's technology was only used in its modem and it shouldn't be forced to pay Qualcomm royalties for innovations it had nothing to do with.
Please re-read my quote. Nothing in it implies I know the terms of the agreement. It's why I used words like presumably and supposedly. Nothing in my quote implies a loss for Apple. In fact my quote explicitly says the opposite. I openly stated they didn't lose. My point was you can't provide a basis to say Qualcomm didn't win.
How is the settlement "More confirmation apple was lying about being overcharged"?
While I like most Apple products, I think Apple as a company is a bit of a Dick. Overcharged itself is a value judgement. Is it generally accepted Apple was charged a fair amount? People that are overcharged tend to get cranky so Apple acting in an unsavory manner is what a company that feels like they are being overcharged might do. I like a "Matter of fact" statement to be clearly supported facts that don't require major leaps and I'm not seeing how you get there.
Your conclusion could be correct but your premise doesn't seem solid in my opinion.
Your math is suspect.
If Apple is currently paying $7.50 for 4G modems (which is what Apple claimed), and now gets 5G (which also includes 4G for compatibility) for $8-9, then it means Apple is only paying between $0.50-1.50 for 5G. Seems like a bargain to me.
Qualcomm stated back in Oct 2018 that Apple owed $7 billion in withheld royalties. Minus the $1 billion Apple won in a previous ruling leaves $6 billion. The actual amount was $4.5 billion so that "analyst" was off a whopping $1.5 billion.
Looks like he wasn't right AT ALL.
Tim Cook should be behind bars trying to bankrupt Western companies to transfer intellectual properties overseas.
Honestly sounds like a win for both - much to what Cook eluded to on the call.
Apple gets out of some major payments, most presumably locks in a rate ratio for modems and Qualcomm gets a higher price/better percentage chunk than negotiation was getting them, some reimbursement in the short term, and the largest manufacturer (that's not currently producing their own modems) to push their modems exclusively worldwide, which is a big deal as 5G threatens to redistribute the power among telecommunications companies.
Apple gets out of some major payments, most presumably locks in a rate ratio for modems and Qualcomm gets a higher price/better percentage chunk than negotiation was getting them, some reimbursement in the short term, and the largest manufacturer (that's not currently producing their own modems) to push their modems exclusively worldwide, which is a big deal as 5G threatens to redistribute the power among telecommunications companies.
It would be "voluntarily" if Qualcomm did not sue Apple and Apple decided to pay them anyways. What we have here is as voluntary as a shotgun wedding.
Apple claimed that Qualcomm "double dipping" was illegal and they did not have to pay them any royalties at all:
Now Apple has broadened its own attack. It told a U.S. court that Qualcomm’s licensing agreement, which allows it to claim a cut of every iPhone sold, is invalid. If Apple is successful, it could put a stop to Qualcomm’s longstanding business model.
In the settlement they agreed to pay the royalties. Clearly Apple lost to Qualcomm. You can't spin them out of this predicament.