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> If the fee is 20x on their profits from iphones, personally, I'd leave -- for a few years at least. The opportunity cost is very high: leave for 2+ years and
by vinni2 5y ago
> If the fee is 20x on their profits from iphones, personally, I'd leave -- for a few years at least. The opportunity cost is very high: leave for 2+ years and prompt the UK gov to act. Then return
And loose the customers base who would otherwise be locked into iOS/Apple ecosystem? It’s not just profits from iPhones they would be loosing.
- chasil 5y agoE.U. countries are very close by. Apple products would likely be in duty free in force. Trade in used devices would be brisk, fed in part by what is brought in. Then, Apple begins running ads for sympathetic members of parliament, with astonishing levels of cash.
- pmyteh 5y agoYou're right about the imports. Not sure the lobbying campaign would go like that: party discipline in the UK is too strong for picking off sympathetic MPs to be a useful strategy, and political advertising is very heavily regulated.
- blibble 5y agothe devices that infringe identify themselves to cell towers don't they? would be easy enough for the patent owner to obtain an injunction preventing new devices being used on major cellular operators