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> Yep. Historically though, Apple's standards have been less about creating convergent technology and more about reinforcing revenue streams. Look at the entire
by scarface74 4y ago
> Yep. Historically though, Apple's standards have been less about creating convergent technology and more about reinforcing revenue streams. Look at the entire MFi line, a 'standard'
That was never a licensed standard overseen by a standards body.
Apple contributed to the H.264 standard, and is also a major contributor to the USB C standard, as well as the Thunderbolt standard.
> They've made it completely obvious that their goal is indiscriminate rent collection, and I'd appreciate if that attitude would remain isolated from the ideals of open computing as a whole.
You realize that’s how the entire industry works right? Cellular standards and most video and modern audio codecs are also licensed via a patent pool.
There is no such thing as “open computing” where nothing is licensed from patent holders for anything that the vast majority of people would find usable.
- smoldesu 4y agoApple certainly has the legal autonomy to do all of this, I'm not disputing that. My point is that through these decisions, their behaviors obviously constitute market abuse. Something is gravely wrong if you can behave in the manner Apple has and become the world's largest company.
- scarface74 4y agoSo is everyone else who you have to license from to create a modern cell phone also engaging in “market abuse”? Do you realize how much money both ARM and Qualcomm make from each cellphone? Do you realize how much Google makes from the patents they bought from Motorola? If you aren’t in the Apple ecosystem, you pay Apple very little to create a cell phone, maybe a few tenths of a cent from H.264. Now compare that to the “essential patents” you have to license to create a 4G or 5G cellphone.