No, it's just that Apple has a history of cutting off companies permanently. Once they decide not to do business with you, you're done and they'll do what they

No, it's just that Apple has a history of cutting off companies permanently. Once they decide not to do business with you, you're done and they'll do what they have to in order to avoid using you. In this case, I wager they'd rather engineer around this patent holder than pay them since they took the risk of going to production without licensing the patent.