You guys are making this a really irrational, really emotional "Apple vs Qualcomm" issue. The root of the problem is not that.
The root of the problem is bad patent law. It really doesn't matter what apple does, it doesn't matter if their CEO eats babies, the merits of a patent are irrelevant to whether the company "feels like a baddy."
If you think apple has bad monopolistic practices in its app store, that only reinforces the fact that our system is anticompetitive, and that both Qualcomm should lose its patent as well as potential opening up of the IOS ecosystem.
And a broken cellular standards body that doesn't nail down in explicit detail how the IP will be licensed before granting a government-sponsored & mandated monopoly.
Who said anything about a "problem"? It's a fight between corporations, I don't see anything about this that is bad for society at large. Apple already turns a huge profit on each phone, it's not likely that they would pass on a potential saving to the consumer. And Qualcomm is hardly a patent troll, they use their licence fees to fund R&D. There are plenty of problems with our IP laws but is this really one of them?
It's a difficult one - Qualcomm have invested a huge amount of money in developing some awesome baseband hardware - so should see some protection of that.
The root of the problem is bad patent law. It really doesn't matter what apple does, it doesn't matter if their CEO eats babies, the merits of a patent are irrelevant to whether the company "feels like a baddy."
If you think apple has bad monopolistic practices in its app store, that only reinforces the fact that our system is anticompetitive, and that both Qualcomm should lose its patent as well as potential opening up of the IOS ecosystem.