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No, they won because they wanted to retaliate against the USA arresting a top Huewei executive.
by enraged_camel 8y ago
No, they won because they wanted to retaliate against the USA arresting a top Huewei executive.
- dis-sys 8y agonot every single thread on HN has to be politicized. Qualcomm picked these patents months ago, they filed a lawsuit by arguing that these patents are being used by Apple without licensing. This is enough to call these concerned patents "key patents". my post is all about a question I am interested in - what kind of reward a big name high tech company is going to reward you when you are the inventor of such key patents.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoDo you really think that courts in China are independent? Yes, no? If no or maybe, then China warned USA, mess with us and APPL is going quite a bit down. And APPL is the first...
- yorwba 8y agoApple goes down, Qualcomm goes up, why should the US government care which of two US companies wins a ruling in China?
- enraged_camel 8y ago>>not every single thread on HN has to be politicized. All this kvetching about politics on HN needs to stop. This court decision undeniably has a political component, and therefore must be discussed. Technology rarely exists in a vacuum.
- cronix 8y agoThat sounds obvious, but I kind of doubt it in this case. Arresting a citizen vs holding a piece of hardware up for sale (in one country) due to software issues that can (fairly easily) be corrected. It doesn't seem proportional. If it was a response, I think they would have gone further and be more proportional like they seem to with everything else.
- throwy67i4 8y agoRetaliate by awarding an American company a favorable judgement and enforcing American IP laws?