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

To: DanD who wrote (146754)	6/1/2018 11:18:02 AM
From: JeffreyHF	6 Recommendations Recommended By DanD Fiero lrnin recycled_electron Thehammer and 1 more member Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196746

In fact, what you pay Apple for your overpriced iPhone wouldn't be a dime less, even if Apple paid nothing for all QTL IP. That's the specious reality of their plea of price-gauging by QTL. In fact, it's Apple's outsized margins relative to other device manufacturers, that you're overpaying to support.

To: DanD who wrote (146754)	6/1/2018 11:20:15 AM
From: Wildbiftek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196746

But isn't this Apple's logic? Their contract with their manufacturers does include these licensing fees when they signed; there is also an offset through their other contract with Qualcomm, and despite how it's characterized by Qualcomm it all flows to into Apple's bottom line. It's all well and good to believe Apple is doing this for some noble cause but my main point is they've abided by those two contracts for quite some time to the tunes of hundreds of billions in profits without complaint.