Qualcomm are clearly the bad guys here. There's no way Apple can possibly have stolen intellectual property. Only others do that.
Apple have done plenty of things that are wrong in the past, however this time Qualcomm are in the wrong and should simply fess up and deal with it.
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Uh... they already successfully banned all your other products. Doesn't seem like a desperate move to me.
With respect it is a very desperate move because without the money they get from Apple Qualcomm they are screwed.
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The first Qualcomm patent reportedly enables users to "adjust and reformat the size and appearance of photos," while the second is said to relate to "managing applications using a touch screen when viewing and navigating apps."
This is such a blindingly obvious patent with prior art I don't see it standing up at all.
Except that at least on elf those patents is no longer valid.
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It isn't illegal nor unfair to take a percentage. Apple signed the contract. No one had a gun to Tim's head.
The FTC disagree with you. They say it is illegal to charge twice. I am sure that if you went into shop to buy a bag of flour to use to make a cake that you sell, you would be hacked off if the shop then said to you "Hey we know we charged you already for that bag of four but we now want a % of the total cost that you sell the cake for.
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Don't really think they care. They're the main supplier for Android phones and wearables. Apart from that, Apple's mobile division is in a desolate state anyway. Products don't sell, about 10 years behind Google when it comes to Siri vs Google Assistant and next year's phones will look the same as this year's and last year's. Outlook's not that rosy, so Qualcomm's much better off betting on Android.
Except that Android is in an even bigger state of chaos and disarray due to poor build quality and poor safety. Remember Samsung at all and those phones that had a tendency to explode!!
or shall we go on about how Huawei are accused of having secret back doors into their equipment hence why they are banned in certain places.
Or shall we go on about how security in general on play store was lousy for many years and still is? The amount of apps that contain malicious code is uncountable.
Without Apple, qualcomm is screwed in terms of profits.
They do not charge android makers twice or in the way they do with Apple.
They will take about 80% profit loss when they no longer are used in Apple iPhones.
Sends pretty dire for Qualcomm, hence the lawsuits.
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Well, the other companies actually have patent agreements with Qualcomm and pay for using their intellectual property. Apple just steals it, just like the EU's tax money. First they had to pay the EU 14 billion Euro in back taxes and now they're being sued for patent infringement. Being a crook company seems to be Apple's new deal. If you can't innovate, cheat and steal instead. Works just fine until you get caught.
Sorry to correct you but you are wrong.
Firstly Apple got charged by Qualcomm twice. Qualcomm do not do that to any other company so how is that fair? Answer, it is not!
Imagine that you bake your own cakes to sell. Imagine that you buy flour from a shop to use in your cakes. Imagine that the shop sells flour to other cake makers but they only charge them once. Now also imagine that they charge you twice. They charge you for buying the bags of flour but they also then demand a % of each cake sale. If you then decide to make cost savings and decide to stop using their flour, instead you use another supplier of flour that the shop sues you and tries to get your cakes forbidden from being sold. How would that be fair to you?
it would not would it? So Apple stole nothing. Next the EU declared that Apple got state aid from Ireland but that was disputed by both Apple AND irelands. So perhaps the EU could be wrong. I mean, plenty of governments have been known to be wrong in the past. So do you think that the EU are never wrong, ever?
So your argument has just been proven wrong.
Thank you anyway.
