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I find great irony in Qualcomm exercising a monopoly position to take a % of total phone price from Apple... since Apple uses its monopoly position to take a %
by blunte 7y ago
I find great irony in Qualcomm exercising a monopoly position to take a % of total phone price from Apple... since Apple uses its monopoly position to take a % of all app revenue.
What Apple thinks would be fair for Qualcomm chip license fees would also be reasonable for App Store fees.
- kumarvvr 7y ago> since Apple uses its monopoly position to take a % of all app revenue Wait. What are you talking about? They own a platform, others want to use that platform to make money, so Apple is charging fees to use their platform. Where is the monopoly part? Developers have other avenues to sell their software on (Android) iOS and Android can be classified as a Duopoly though.
- braythwayt 7y agoDuopoly is when the two heterogenous companies coöperate to form a monopoly. That was Wintel. A cartel is when a small number of homogenous companies share the market while ostensibly competing with each other, but coöperate to erect barriers to anyone else getting into the market. If Apple and Google block other companies from getting into the mobile device business, they would be a cartel.
- Bakary 7y agoDid you start using that spelling from reading the New Yorker?
- braythwayt 7y agoWhich spelling?
- ncmncm 7y agoProbably the diæresis: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-... The "æ" is a whole nother thing.
- braythwayt 7y agoI was taught about the diaeresis way back in the 1970s in high school English. But I didn’t embrace it until the late 80s when I started writing with a Macintosh, and read “The Mac is Not a Typewriter,” a great little book. I've always liked typography and graphic design, and I enjoy anachronisms like ligatures, alternate letterforms, drop capitals, visual justification, latin phrases, and so on ad nauseum.
- ncmncm 7y agoad nause-am. I am particularly fond of the looped st and sc ligatures.
- zaroth 7y agoApple doesn’t get a percent cut of Android app sales.
- bilbo0s 7y agoI don't think this "blunte" guy really quite understands what people in the cell phone industry mean when they say that Qualcomm had a stranglehold on everything. They mean everything. Every thin dime spent anywhere you care to spend it. There really exists nothing else quite like Qualcomm around out there. We tend to throw the monopoly word around so loosely that we start to equate things like Apple and Qualcomm. It really does make it difficult to try to generate support to dig out from under abusive companies like Qualcomm when they have an army of people out there advancing the narrative that they are no different than any other company. Meanwhile real engineers are losing their livelihoods by the thousands when companies succumb to the Qualcomm chokehold. Then a lot of those engineers have to go work for Qualcomm. Etc etc, on and on. It's sad.
- ncmncm 7y agoMaybe not, but they get a cut of each Android phone.
- ksec 7y agoAnd not just Qualcomm, Ericsson, ZTE, Nokia get a percentage cut of iPhone as well.
- scarface74 7y agoApple never agreed to FRAND and allow its IP to be part of a standard. The App Store is not required to sell a phone.
- donatzsky 7y agoApple only takes payment for apps sold through their own platform. Only if, on the other hand, they also demanded a cut of revenue from sales on competing platforms, you could talk about a situation similar to Qualcomm.