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Capitalism: Qualcomm effectively established monopoly
  • The FTC ruling against Qualcomm confirms in writing what we assumed for years: MediaTek, Samsung, HiSilicon, Intel all couldn't sell modems to OEMs because Qualcomm refused them licenses. The MediaTek exhibit is particularly damning as QC was ought to "destroy" them.

    Say thanks for patents :-) People paid tens of billions more due to only this one issue, if you count other patents owned by parasites in the smartphone business you will realize that up to 25% and in case of top smartphones - up to 40% of smartphone cost goes to them.