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No, Apple ended up licensing the patents (Jobs bluster was BS): https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-pays-10m-to-license-palm-other-patents/ https://ww

• allenu 2y ago
  That is quite amusing, but $10M is peanuts to Apple for some necessary patent licenses.
  • bryanrasmussen 2y ago
    peanuts now, but peanuts then?
    • function_seven 2y ago
      Yeah, even in 2007 Apple was a huge success already. Worth about $200 billion at the time, was earning about $3.5 billion a year in profit, and had $15 billion cash on hand. https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2007/10/22Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results/ https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2007/10/22Apple-Reports-Fo...
• saghm 2y ago
  It might not have been fully BS; as the parent commenter mentions, having a paper trail might have been an intentional strategy to try to discourage Jobs from going forward with it.