The reason why Qualcomm dares to "anger" Apple is that Qualcomm has mastered a large number of patents in the communication industry, and Apple cannot bypass Qualcomm. Another reason is that high throughput does not produce other products and equipment in the mobile communication industry.
What is the reason for Apple's Qualcomm War?
Qualcomm Quantity is a development-driven company.
High throughput has made the CDMA network system the dominant position in the 2G era, and basically obtained all the core patents of CDMA. In the 3G era, various 3G standards (wimax except IEEE) are centered on CDMA. In the 3G era, high throughput has established the absolute dominance in the field of mobile communication, which is called the high throughput era.
In the 3G era, Qualcomm introduced the "Qualcomm Quantity Tax" globally, which damaged the communication industry as a whole. Under the "Qualcomm quantity" of 4G, in fact, the Qualcomm quantity component in 4G standard almost disappeared. However, due to compatibility issues, Qualcomm is still an unforgivable company in the communication industry in the 4G era.
What is the reason for Apple's Qualcomm War?
Apple's unwillingness to pay communication patent fees is also well known in the industry. It is normal that all kinds of patent fees are in arrears and are often accused by communication giants.
Qualcomm is so confident because other mobile communication giants have their own mobile communication products and hardware equipment, and Qualcomm produces nothing but chips.
In the early days of Qualcomm, they had their own mobile phones and equipment, and later, in order to promote their CDMA technology and chips, they were ruthlessly sold to other companies. Because of this, the big companies in the mobile communication industry, such as Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei, have to compromise because they can't get high throughput.
Qualcomm's only weakness is the "anti-monopoly" investigation. If this place is sealed up by FTC, Qualcomm Quantity is judged as a monopoly, and the collection of Qualcomm Quantity Patent Fee is likely to become difficult, which may affect the overall structure of the communication industry.