I would imagine Apple is a big enough company to weather these troubles and eventually get something out of it. It seems at the scale of their iphone sales, it would still make sense to keep sinking billions more into this than have to pay the Qualcomm tax forever.
Yes and no
Apple has to reinvent the wheel outside of any patents that Qualcomm have, isn’t an easy feat, but yes it would make more sense to keep going rather than giving money to an opposing company lol
Personally I doubt it’s that much. Too high and qualcomm would very quickly be smothered with antitrust/fair pricing suits considering they hold enough patents to stall every designer. Apple just wants to control as much of their product as possible, but whether or not that’s practical for every piece of IP remains to be seen.
I would imagine Apple is a big enough company to weather these troubles and eventually get something out of it. It seems at the scale of their iphone sales, it would still make sense to keep sinking billions more into this than have to pay the Qualcomm tax forever.
Yes and no Apple has to reinvent the wheel outside of any patents that Qualcomm have, isn’t an easy feat, but yes it would make more sense to keep going rather than giving money to an opposing company lol
really depends on how much Qualcomm charges.
Personally I doubt it’s that much. Too high and qualcomm would very quickly be smothered with antitrust/fair pricing suits considering they hold enough patents to stall every designer. Apple just wants to control as much of their product as possible, but whether or not that’s practical for every piece of IP remains to be seen.