Qualcomm Puts Aside $1.5B in Funds Required to Enforce iPhone Sales Ban in Germany

[Winni]

Then you aren't Apple's target demographic. Apple doesn't make phones for people who want to spend $350-$450 (roughly converted from euro) and they never will. Doing so would "cheapen" the brand and commoditize the iPhone, which really would be the beginning of the end.

And good luck finding a decent tablet that isn't an iPad.

Well. Good luck finding a tablet that is actually USEFUL for ANYTHING. Tablets - at best - are glorified eBook readers and sofa web browsers. The moment you attach an external keyboard to the tablet, you realize that you'd be better off using a real notebook instead...
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Too bad Qualcomm doesn’t put that 1.5 billion toward R&D coming up with a chip that can actually compete with a Bionic chip.

This patent lawsuit is about the optimized power consumption of teleCOMMUNICATION chips -- it has absolutely nothing to do with the COMPUTE chips...

 

[I7guy]

They don’t seem to be tolerating those high prices now as well as Tim had hoped for. I guess this will make Apple reevaluate their prices for 2019 and perhaps even push them to be a little more aggressive on their next iPhone than they thought they had to be when it comes to features/design. Perhaps, Apple will copy the punch hole in the display that Samsung is using on the S10 sooner than 2020.

I dont know what apple will do in 2019. Apple is not alone in the post-$1000 phone era. It’s a psychological barrier such as the difference between $999 and $1000. I don’t see apple lowering their prices to what people (on MR) want them to lower it to.

 

[britboyj]

Are you saying it’s okay for bigger companies to control smaller companies? What exactly is your point here?

Willing to bet you were all for Apple getting samsung phones banned.

I'm all for patent holders making patent trolls stop their ********, whomever is the troll. Qualcomm's patents are a mixed bag, but UI elements and animations being subject to a patent is insane and needs to be stopped.