lol. If anyone should be investigated for being a monopoly, Apple more so than QC.
The way I see it in the industry, phone OEM’s has and always will strong arm the suppliers. And Apple is no different. I think in this case, Apple is taking advantage of the situation.
QC is going to fight this to death. And there’s a reason for this. If apple, wins, it’s going to snowball into Samsung, LG and every other OEM that ends up suing, as other OEMs will want to use this to drive down their costs.
QC will every so often contemplate spinning off its patent business from its chip business, whenever it gets into a lawsuit like this. A la “Spinco”. And it usually gets settled someone way or the other.
Besides, there is a changing of the guards at the FTC: Edith Ramirez stepping down.
On thing that this might end up doing though, is jeopardize the NXP acquisition.
Semi-business in a lot of ways is a cut throat and dirty business. That’s why things are relatively cheap.
