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Wild speculation but kinda hilarious if Intel asked Apple, "Hey how does design element X work in the existing product?" and Apple said, "Gee, I dunno, let's as
by wyldfire 8y ago
Wild speculation but kinda hilarious if Intel asked Apple, "Hey how does design element X work in the existing product?" and Apple said, "Gee, I dunno, let's ask the existing vendor. Hey Qualcomm, how does this part work again?"
- duxup 8y agoThat's not too unusual. I worked at a company where we acquired by one of our "partner's" competitors. An engineer sent out an email including some new management from the acquired company, me, and our partner complaining that our partner was no longer responding in a timely manner ;)
- bluGill 8y agoUnlikely. Intel and Apple both know better than to be that obvious.
- samfisher83 8y agoYou seem to imply Intel and Apple is a person. There are thousands of engineers who work on these products. Are every one of them supposed to be perfect. If legal had to read every engineers email we would get nothing done. I mean there was probably some commands the cpu sent the baseband and I am guessing Apple wanted it to be the same with the intel chip.
- quickben 8y agoYes. Every one of them signed bunch of documents.
- baxtr 8y agoI am not sure if that’s how things work out in the end. Usually, all big companies have programs where you need to comply once a year or so (eg by watching training videos and answering some questions on how to write emails). Thus, they can transfer to an extent to the individual