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On the surface, this looks more positive to QCOM. However, I feel a good long term play for APPL would be to negotiate a cap on royalties for all LTE shipments
by mrlambchop 7y ago
On the surface, this looks more positive to QCOM. However, I feel a good long term play for APPL would be to negotiate a cap on royalties for all LTE shipments through litigation like this, then fade in their own silicon in some developing markets whilst keeping their eye on 5G deployments using modems from the best vendor(s).
My 2 cents.
- teddyh 7y agoYou know what really annoys me? It’s people who call companies by only their stock symbol. Why does this annoy me? It is as if stock symbols were the normal company identifiers (as opposed to, say the names of the companies) for all the readers who the writer cared about. Which means that the person who wrote it is, in essence, saying “If you don’t invest in stocks, I don’t care if you understand me or not, since then you don’t matter.” EDIT: If all you want to do is clarify what the stock symbols are, you first had better check that you’re using the correct symbols, and then all you’d have to do is write “Apple (AAPL)”. This is clear, precise, and does not exclude anyone needlessly. Therefore, I can only conclude that people who don’t do this clearly want be excluding.
- TylerE 7y agoTo stock traders, they don't. Complaining about stock symbols in an economics article is like complaining that a chemistry paper used "h202" instead of spelling out "hydrogen peroxide", or for that matter than any tech article explain what http is.
- teddyh 7y agoAbbreviations are one thing (they make things shorter), precise technical terminology another (they make things exact), but writing “APPL” instead of “Apple” is simply signaling. EDIT: Especially since, as axaxs pointed out in another comment, APPL is apparently the wrong symbol for Apple. This strongly indicates that “APPL” is not used because it’s important to use the correct symbol, it’s there to signal that “I trade in stocks, and if you don’t, then I don’t care about you.”
- saagarjha 7y ago(And the actual ticker is “AAPL”)
- anbop 7y agoThe stock symbol is a way of divorcing the discussion from the actual company, its culture, employees, role in society, etc. To traders, different companies are just different machines for turning money into more money, like the numbered menu items at McDonalds. Talking in tickers helps reinforce this.
- axaxs 7y agoFWIW, Apple's stock symbol is AAPL.