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

To: BoonDoggler who wrote (146687)	5/31/2018 4:07:14 AM
From: Qurious	Respond to of 196553

Good point. Supports what I have been saying. Q's royalty model has been tweaked (and re-tweaked) for the handset mkt so that the royalty is seen as more or less reasonable/acceptable to its customers (handset manufacturers). When it encountered problems, it adds another provision (e.g. cap) -- just like our tax code. But how to counter Apple's argument (forgetting for the moment that in Apple's case, the logic does not operate due to the cap) that model A has a bigger screen and more GB storage than model B but is otherwise the same phone, why should Q be able to collect more royalty on model A than model B (assuming both A and B are still in the linear range of the royalty curve)?