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by aey 9y ago
Quit! Start your own company that sells your job as a service. If you do it right your current boss can be your first customer.
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by aey 9y ago
A larger price tag ;)
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by aey 9y ago
It sounds like you are suggesting that wages should be set at a minimum level that is strictly above any government assistance. So if you have a job, you are disqualified from any assistance what so ever, and all the government assistance
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by aey 9y ago
Running hard. Pain is a gift :)
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by aey 9y ago
Their obligation to maximize shareholder returns is what drives them to grow as much as possible. The big 4 just happen to have done a good job at it (or got lucky).
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by aey 9y ago
afaik, non-desciminatory just means that they can't say we are charging Samsung more because we don't like them, but they can say that the fee for a specific use is X. And they could change the fee based on volume, clients abilit
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by aey 9y ago
My understanding is that Qualcomm would allow Samsung to do whatever it wants if they paid a high enough fee. Sounds like the fee is to high for the US market at least. Afaik Samsung does ship some chips for the other markets. Just becaus
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by aey 9y ago
Samsung is a grown up, they signed a contract for a mutually beneficial reason. If they want a steeper discount, I am sure they can offer Qualcomm more fab capacity for their chipsets. In my view, if qualcomm was being unreasonable in thei
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by aey 9y ago
How do you determine FRAND? My opinion is that since apple is making 40b a year on iPhone sales, 50% of Qualcomms market cap a year, then Qualcomm is charging Apple a fair and reasonable price. If qualcomm chose not to be part of the LTE s
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by aey 9y ago
The whole point of granting a patent is that it's a monopoly. I think it can be argued that the amount of time the patent is valid for is not optimal for maximizing the most social gains over all possible futures, but I think it'
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by aey 9y ago
Apple could certainly try to prove that theory in the market place. They wouldn't even have to have this lawsuit.
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by aey 9y ago
Doesn't seem like it would make a difference in the total cost. Intel could license their patents under the same terms as Qualcomm Patent Inc, and effectively get a discount out of Qualcomm Hardware Inc.
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by aey 9y ago
Except that using an alternative technology (gsm/tdma) would make their phone laughable. A windows phone with LTE would outsell an iPhone without :). Qualcomm is correct to argue that their patents are critical to the device functional
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by aey 9y ago
Well, standard != tech. They wanted to roll out an entire new network based on some flaky tech, instead of focusing on making a better radio. In 10 years LTE is going to be to slow, and Qualcomm is busy developing whatever is going to repla
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by aey 9y ago
There is nothing in the market to signal that Qualcomm is not licensing under FRAND. It's not like they have 80% market share. Apple intel and Samsung have a combined market cap of 1.3 trillion. Qualcomm is 80 billion.
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by aey 9y ago
They can spend some money on r&d and build a patent portfolio to force Qualcomm to cross license.
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by aey 9y ago
That's true. Forgot they exited the market. mediatek has no problems selling arm phones. Qualcomm has only 50% of market share in that space and there are plenty of other competitors. Unlike the x86 server market. Samsung, Intel and A
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by aey 9y ago
Samsung just doesn't want to pay the licensing fee. TI has no problems selling arm phones. Apparently the r&d costs in this space are higher then lawyer fees. Otherwise why wouldn't they dump some money into r&d and get s
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by aey 9y ago
These patents aren't cheap to develop or obvious. Of all the tech patents that are out there, high bandwidth and low latency communication is the hardest to develop. Apple is sitting on a mountain of cash, Qualcomm is absolutely in t
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by aey 10y ago
None of their modem code is open source. It's baked into a proprietary modem image that runs on a different subsystem then the application processor. You could run a your own OS on the application processor, but millions of lines of c
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by aey 10y ago
Because of Qualcomm
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