So are they going after Verizon and AT&T then since their inventions are at the heart of every call? The possibilities are endless.
Well, no. Verizon and AT&T pay their contracted royalties.
In this case, Apple doesn't even have a license themselves, so they strong-armed their contract factories to stop paying on their licenses. Talk about throwing your weight around to try to get what you want. Apple has become one of the biggest bullies on the planet.
Also this insane idea that they are entitled to a % of the entire sale and not just the cost of the component they are responsible for is one of the key reasons we don't have a glut of LTE-capable macbook pros, surfaces, etc. It's harmful to the advancement of technology.
So when Apple wanted
100% of Samsung's profits, over a few minor patents out of thousands in a phone, you were against that too?
As I understand the case, Apple doesn't have an issue with paying for the required licenses. They just don't think the payment should be based on % of the entire device, that they shouldn't have to pay for licenses twice (themselves and built into the price of the components they purchase), and that Qualcomm is charging a more than FRAND rate for their patents.
Previous trial history shows that Apple almost always claims that any price is "not FRAND". Heck, even when offered price arbitration by judges, they have refused to comply if the judge's price was higher than they want to pay. Doesn't sound like Apple wants to pay what's fair at all.
And no sir, they cannot be paying for licenses twice, since no license is built into the price of the components they buy.
That's why all the posts about chips are meaningless. Qualcomm doesn't care who you buy chips from, because just like with every other cellular inventor from Moto to Nokia, you have to pay royalties on the IP, not the silicon itself.
Yet the rest of the world does not use it.
You make it seem that no other phone system is worth a bent dime. The billion or so non CDMA users might like to disagree with you.
Like most people, you mistakenly think that CDMA is only used in systems that were once based solely on CDMA, like Verizon was.
What you're missing, is the fact that essentially
every phone on the planet uses a CDMA type radio for 3G.
You see, GSM 3G uses a W-CDMA radio, which falls under Qualcomm's patents. Ditto for TD-SCDMA in China, etc.
Lets br clear here. Without Qualcomm, your next iPhone will be 3g.
Not even that, since all 3G is based greatly on Qualcomm work. Ditto for 5G. People should be careful for what they wish. Giving Apple an extra $5-10 PROFIT per phone which they will NOT give to us, is a bad deal in return for us not getting super comms in the future. Apple does not contribute to such standards. They only take.
The model Qualcomm uses allows low cost handsets in emerging markets. If they did not do this there would be no cheap phones because everyone would be paying them $25 a handset or some crazy amount.
Yep, the reason we can have free iPhone apps is because the higher priced apps subsidize the lower priced apps. And the free apps help get more iPhone buyers.
Cellular royalties work the same way. Higher priced phones subsidize all the lower priced phones, which is the primary reason why we such have a huge global network and phone market today.
It's a network and market without which Apple would not have made a quarter trillion dollars in pure profit on their relatively late entrance into phones.
