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by tooltalk 8y ago
try BILLIONs.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>On the phone front, they were used to selling phones at premium pricing only relying on their brand name. Welcome to the groovy train, you are about 5 years late to the party. >On the chip front, TSMC has been outpacing them for year
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>On the other hand, Samsung's smartphone market share is pretty important for its nascent non-memory component business, ... not sure why that matters? the nascent non-memory component business is not the major cost-center, or mone
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>What about the fact that the Chinese manufacturers are taking over the Asian and European market Two independent industries. Those Chinese manufacturers still have to use memory products made by either Samsung, Hynix or Micron. It do
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Absolutely I agree that AppleInsider's nonsensical fanboi narrative has no place. This is all part of business cycle that went a bit berserk in 2016 when Samsung decided to increase their capex significantly to boost their capacity to
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Yes, there was a major DRAM market crash in 2016 and it wouldn't probably make good sense to use that as a proper baseline.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>Fun fact: Samsung made the chip for the first iPhone. Steve Jobs was so dissatisfied with the experience that Apple bought PA Semi to design the chips in-house. I thought PA Semi's specialty was in power management and many didn&#x
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Ok. it's actually fairly simple. A minor correction though: Qualcomm actually never made their legal argument based on QTL and QTC. Qualcomm did argue that their patent portfolio goes beyond baseband chips and their customers are pay
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Sure, go read the document. The title of this doc says "Samsung Relative Evaluation Report on S1, iPhone." I'm guessing that you never worked in technology or product engineering team? Again, this internal doc was presented
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by tooltalk 8y ago
It doesn't matter whether Samsung released them or not -- the legal standard required to avoid infringement is evidence that Samsung had knowledge or sought similar designs before Apple's public release. Samsung's internal d
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Well, you are talking about something else. The baseband chips only handle wireless communication and these are really special purpose chips. We are not talking about Qualcomm's SOC, ie Snapdragon, GPU, AI chips, etc,.. these are not
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by tooltalk 8y ago
I think you are referring to Apple and Apple's CMs (contract manufacturers) lawsuit against Qualcomm? These are really one single lawsuit orchestrated by Apple. The issue isn't overly complicated -- they are essentially refusing
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by tooltalk 8y ago
No. design patents only last 15 years. Coke's bottle design I believe is protected under trade dress/mark, which allows Coke's unique design to be protected in perpetuity. https://www.upcounsel.com/trade-dre
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>Considering that most phones from Samsung, at that time, had a physical keyboard and were more like Blackberry devices, I think it's incredibly telling that their next iteration was a full-screen, touch-based device with a single b
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by tooltalk 8y ago
> Apple has a dispute with pricing, and whether it should be charged a flat rate instead of % of devices. No. Apple isn't saying it should be charged a "flat rate," but that a percentage rate should be based on the price o
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Sure, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Evaluating/comparing/benchmarking your competitors is something that everyone, including Apple, does daily. Now, my understanding is that both Apple and Samsung initially ag
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Yep. Most wireless SEP holders (Standard Essential Patent) don't license at component-level (ie, modem). They usually collect royalties at system-level with smartphone OEMs. That's more or less been accepted as de facto industry
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Apple doesn't have to know anything. You can also be liable if you sell, use, or somehow profit from infringed product.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
The common industry practice is to collect royalties at the end of the supply chain -- from smartphone OEMs. So, SEP holders, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, etc, usually don't after each other or chip makers for royalties. Now, Apple&#x27
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Sure, it's the same reason why Apple sued Samsung for features built in Android by Google. I think it falls under "secondary infringement."
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Not necessarily.. I've been following him since Samsung's battle with Apple in early 2010's. His lopsided depiction of the legal proceedings (see his commentary on Judge Grewal's adversal jury instruction on Samsung an
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by tooltalk 8y ago
>Being 'most litigious' does not imply they are patent trolls. sure, just responding to your claim that big, 'reasonable' companies use their IP defensively or "protective[ly]." > They could be pursuing l
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Actually, while it's not common, a change in legal venue is perfectly legal and Apple knows how to play the game (see Google vs Rockstar, which, once upon a time, was Apple's patent trolling operation in the Eastern District of Te
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by tooltalk 8y ago
two things: First, that's the cost of doing business in less politically developed countries like South Korea. Google withdrew from China for not wanting to stoop to the oppressive, corrupt gov't; Apple on the other hand outsource
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by tooltalk 8y ago
We are not talking about "most" sane, reasonable companies like Google, Samsung, etc. Apple is historically known for being litigatious, in addition to being the most litigated today: https://www.pcworld.com/artic
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by tooltalk 8y ago
looks like Apple is shopping around. I guess we are going to see more cases landing on the desk of Judge Lucy Koh in the Northern District. Koh is obviously known for her landmark decisions in Apple vs Samsung and other cases that overtly
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by tooltalk 8y ago
In my 20 years in IT and finance, I've always had a fair number of Indian coworkers, though mostly American-born or raised and US-educated. Some of my best buddies come from that pool. A couple of interesting points to note about my la
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Yeah, it's about 5x for 2017: 26K vs 126K https://www.recode.net/2017/4/13/15281170/china-india-tech-h...
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by tooltalk 8y ago
my bad. $235K is the 95h percentile for household, not individual.
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by tooltalk 8y ago
Looks like the 95th percentile went up to $235K in 2017/2018. https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

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