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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slacker711 who wrote (146671)	5/30/2018 5:24:14 PM
From: Qurious	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 196546

I am not sure why I appear to be the only one sees problems with device based royalty. People here seem to see the phone as some sort of indivisible "unity" in which Q plays an essential, holistic function. Okay, fine, suppose I stipulate that to be the case. But what happens when the device is no longer a phone? What happens when the device is now a 5G-enabled car? So, a cap then. But what cap? A $400 cap on a $600 phone seems rational. What about a $50,000 car? What cap should Q use without making its royalty model look ridiculous/irrational?