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Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR (theverge.com)
After securing a win in court earlier this week to ban Apple's older phones, Qualcomm is trying to get the newer iPhones banned too. "According to the Financial Times, Qualcomm has now asked Chinese courts to issue an injunction that bans Apple from selling the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR within the country due to the same case of possible patent infringement," reports The Verge. From the report: The new filing will escalate the companies' legal conflict in China, where Apple has so far ignored a court-ordered sales ban. Apple claims the ban only applied to phones running iOS 11 and earlier. Since its phones have now been updated to iOS 12, Apple believes they can remain on sale, and so it has continued to sell them. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese court's order doesn't specifically mention any version of Apple's operating system. That doesn't necessarily mean Apple is wrong, but it does mean that there's more to be hashed out.
Qualcomm is a patent troll and needs to be stopped. Excessive patents should be taxed heavily. These patents drive up prices for consumers and reduce competition. It's time for the government to use eminent domain to confiscate abused intellectual property.
Of course China is really big on enforcing Patent Infringement isn't it ?
Qualcomm getting desperate now their SOCs getting smashed hand over fist by Apple custom jobs.
Trade wars lead to protectionist trade policies, and before you know it, we're back to paying more for the same shit we could have done without in the first place.
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It would be good to see all the big phone players get together to produce a secure open radio platform that could be masked out by whatever fab wants to run the job for a given integration.
I mean, this is commodity today - phone vendors haven't competed on reception quality in over a decade. They gain more by making the radio a commodity together than they do by playing Qualcomm's bitches.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Require "industry standards" to be:
0). Approved by the FCC AND
a). Based on royalty-free technology OR
b). State a simple, VOLUME-BASED royalty structure.
The more devices you sell, the more you pay - perhaps on a regressive scale. The price of the device should be irrelevant. Pay patent owners based on what THEY are selling not the device-makers.
Fuck apple. Biggest patent trolls in tech.
Banning Apple is peanut.
If you have any guts, Qualcomm, go petition the Chinese courts to issue a ban on Huawei products !
As a Canadian, I can tell you that *There is no rule of law in China*. There is no independent court in China. Every court decision is a directive by the politbureau. Here is how I know. A few days ago, the US asked Canada to detain a Huawei C.F.O. for extradition. Canada did. China does not seem to realize that Canada has laws, and judges are involved, not politicians. Since that time, China has illegally detained two Canadians (the second just yesterday). Yet China keeps demanding politicians in Canada cause the release of the Huawei CFO. In Canada, politicians *CANNOT* tell judges what to do, they can only make laws. Judges are *ALWAYS* independent. But the stupid stupid stupid Chinese can't seem to get this. ...because politicians yelling at judges is *exactly* how its done in China. So when you say "Chinese company won a court ruling in China", what you really mean is "politicians want Huawei in China, not Apple", and that is all there is to know. It has nothing to do with patents, or technology. Some people might be confused, hope this clears it up.
As a tool to do what the Party dictates.
But you are right. It is probably inconceivable that a Canadian court could be independent of the Canadian government. Simply does not compute.
You want -good- patents but not the -bad- kind that lead to monopoly?
A patent, by definition, is a government granted monopoly for a period of time in exchange for publicly sharing the details of the invention.
You are a complete fucking idiot.
And discover that the USA did not protect ANY copyrighted works for years, then only US authors' works were protected. Charles Dickens sold like hot cakes in the USA and he got sweet fuck all. The USA only created copyrights when they had enough authors being "stolen from" in other countries to make enough paid complaint to do something about it. when they didn't make a net profit off the idea, they couldn't give a flying fuck.
Then look at patents on movie recording, held by Edison in the east coast and enforced there, so the movie industry, wanting to avoid paying the patent tax, moved to the west coast, where it took so long to get enforcers out to collect the money due that the company could make the movie, sell the movie, collect the cash, then fold up, only to start again under another name.
Ever wonder why Hollywood and why there are 20 companies involved in every movie production? Patent infringement and liquidation to avoid paying patent dues.
And now they do the 20 companies because they're all under the same umbrella, so each get to claim their chunk of the massive profit tax free, so avoid paying taxes on what they earn. Do YOU get to deduct the cost of your home, bills, food, car, travel costs, etc? No. THEY do.
And you're using qualcomm doing it NOW to ignore Apple's longer history of it...
Fuck you're an ignorant twat.