I'm actually disappointed we didn't get to see this play out in public. As with the Google vs Oracle drama, we'd learn a lot about the internals of each company. I lightly felt like I was on the...
I'm actually disappointed we didn't get to see this play out in public. As with the Google vs Oracle drama, we'd learn a lot about the internals of each company. I lightly felt like I was on the side of Google in that battle, because it's clear that they were operating with more pro-consumer integrity, while Oracle was clawing for money—while it turns out that the court of law saw otherwise, finding in favor of Oracle (thus far, google want's it to go to the Supreme Court).
Where, my opinion flip flopped in the Google/Oracle battle, I feel that the Apple vs. Qualcomm battle would have been far more interesting to see play out, and would have exposed a bit of the monopoly Qualcomm has in the US. I'm not necessarily an internal expert on any of these topics here, but it seems that Intel surely had difficulties bringing up a chipset/modem for iPhone/etc because of the patent-encumbered nature of this world. And Samsung, Apple's biggest competitor, ships their own Exynos chipset/modem combo on their Galaxy devices except in the most patent litigious, where they ship their Galaxy devices with the Qualcomm chips to avoid issues. This affects consumers market-wide, because Qualcomm isn't playing fair and is overpricing their technology, and not opening the sandbox to any reasonable competition—to the extent where Intel has been shoved out of the sandbox.
I'm actually disappointed we didn't get to see this play out in public. As with the Google vs Oracle drama, we'd learn a lot about the internals of each company. I lightly felt like I was on the side of Google in that battle, because it's clear that they were operating with more pro-consumer integrity, while Oracle was clawing for money—while it turns out that the court of law saw otherwise, finding in favor of Oracle (thus far, google want's it to go to the Supreme Court).
Where, my opinion flip flopped in the Google/Oracle battle, I feel that the Apple vs. Qualcomm battle would have been far more interesting to see play out, and would have exposed a bit of the monopoly Qualcomm has in the US. I'm not necessarily an internal expert on any of these topics here, but it seems that Intel surely had difficulties bringing up a chipset/modem for iPhone/etc because of the patent-encumbered nature of this world. And Samsung, Apple's biggest competitor, ships their own Exynos chipset/modem combo on their Galaxy devices except in the most patent litigious, where they ship their Galaxy devices with the Qualcomm chips to avoid issues. This affects consumers market-wide, because Qualcomm isn't playing fair and is overpricing their technology, and not opening the sandbox to any reasonable competition—to the extent where Intel has been shoved out of the sandbox.
This news today is not good news for consumers.
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