Apple sues Qualcomm for $1 billion over excessive royalties

20 January 2017
Earlier this week, the FTC filed its own suit against Qualcomm for unfair patent licensing practices.

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Apple Innovates? No! They just play with consumer's mind and compel them to buy their crape at higher price. If it was apple who innovated then we din't had IR Blasters, Shutter buttons, dual SIM, Secondary displays, Fast Charging etc etc. Innovation is "in past which seems imaginary is true today" What has innovated with iPhones? If apple is good then it is just at it's marketing and software team which is somehow still able to manage iOS.But if someone say it's innovative then it's not.

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    • Anonymous
    • krW
    • 21 Jan 2017

    thgun2, 21 Jan 2017Apple just don't know when to quit. If Apple win the law su... moreOr maybe to pay banjo for every apple purchase of overpriced crap they sold with false claims to justify higher pricing.
    For instance like phones. Sure they developed ios....but that was a long time ago. And it was inferior to flip feature phones in numerous ways of physical specs and software of course.
    And through all this time have done horrible at doing anything to make it worth it or more advanced other than claiming it's faster

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      • 21 Jan 2017

      YowYow, 21 Jan 2017your name explains how narrow-minded you areAs if you are one to talk about narrow minded

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        • 21 Jan 2017

        Anonymous, 21 Jan 2017Samsung is far worse than Apple. They used information fro... moreOh...so much worse...

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          • Anonymous
          • r7T
          • 21 Jan 2017

          Is this about how Qualcomm would charge the manufacturer a licensing fee for using (standard essential) Qualcomm patented technology in their products (chips), but then also charging the purchaser of said chips a licensing fee for using the chips containing (standard essential) Qualcomm patented technology? Does anyone commenting on this have a clue what they're talking about?

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            • AnonD-368020
            • U$k
            • 21 Jan 2017

            Both are fraud

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              • piku
              • gML
              • 21 Jan 2017

              LOL! Apple is frank from shameless if someone watched that tv show then they will know what i mean XD

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                • 21 Jan 2017

                Fitbri, 21 Jan 2017Apple can not talk. They have been murderous robbers for ye... moreSamsung is far worse than Apple. They used information from their trial with Apple to try to extort Nokia. No wonder another one of the founding family is caught up in a bribery scandal.

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                  • 21 Jan 2017

                  AnonD-404798, 21 Jan 2017hahahhahaha I stooped reading the article after this nonsen... moreOh really?
                  Who invented the first touchscreen smartphone in the world then? Shamesung? hahahaha.

                    Apple just don't know when to quit. If Apple win the law suite, the US government should make them pay the taxes they owe from it.

                      Apple can not talk. They have been murderous robbers for years. Nor do they play fair. Nokia have been so patient trying to get apple to pay far price for patent use. Thinking hypocritical apple could get away with it. Nokia had no choice but to go them for it.

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                        • 4rp
                        • 21 Jan 2017

                        Apple innovatives. Even though it is too early but joke of the year.

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 21 Jan 2017

                          Did this fruit know the cause and effect theory in this universe?

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                            • uED
                            • 21 Jan 2017

                            Robbers sue each other.

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                              • rJY
                              • 21 Jan 2017

                              Doesn't apple charge mind blowing royalties from customer for nothing?

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                                • 21 Jan 2017

                                AnonD-404798, 21 Jan 2017hahahhahaha I stooped reading the article after this nonsen... moreApple never did anything except using their keyboard and do CTRL+C then CTRL-V, and adding zeroes on prices.

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                                  • AnonD-558092
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                                  • 21 Jan 2017

                                  I would've rather enjoyed an article titled:
                                  "Customers sues Apple for $10 billions over excessive royalties".

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                                    AnonD-404798, 21 Jan 2017hahahhahaha I stooped reading the article after this nonsen... moreyour name explains how narrow-minded you are

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                                      • 21 Jan 2017

                                      Anonymous, 21 Jan 2017qualcomm the robbersSomeone should sue Apple as well, as their products are most expensive out on the market for no apparent reason.

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                                        AnonD-5197, 21 Jan 2017They innovate new algorithms to generate reasons for lawsuits. Such innovation. These algorithms are easy to copy. It is fairly simple:

                                        :1
                                        If X= Better or as good as Apple;
                                        Then sue;
                                        Goto :1

                                        But now it is:

                                        :1
                                        If X= Company;
                                        Then sue;
                                        Goto :1

                                        Their timing algorithms are improving over the years though. They went crazy when the GALAXY SIII released, but they fixed it afterwards.
                                        For reasons to sue, they have a lousy algorithm that is filled with false statements (as "Apple innovated for many years" or any sentence that contains the string " Apple innovates" and that isn't followed by "does not")