I’ve been away for a few days, so there’s some backlog for me to chew through.
Qualcomm has unveiled explosive charges against Apple, accusing it of stealing “vast swaths” of confidential information and trade secrets for the purpose of improving the performance of chips provided by rival Intel, according to a court filing.
Qualcomm hopes the court will amend allegations in its existing lawsuit against Apple accusing it of breaching the so called master software agreement that Apple signed when it became a customer of Qualcomm’s earlier this decade.
One unlikeable horrible company fighting the other. Am I supposed to root for someone here?
You made your own chips so you don’t need to pay us. Boo hoo, we’ll sue! This is what comes of patents. Cry me a river, for either side. Patents, both hardware and software, need to be abolished once and for all.
Its not just patents, but source code too. I understand the argument around software patents, but source code?
I think copyright should be obeyed, unless you want public domain everything.
But yes Qualcomm are jerks. They are very very hesitant to update the drivers for their chips, and will not let anyone else do it either out of fear of this kind of scenario.
It depends how this source code was used. As long as it was only analyzed to understand it’s inner working it is not touching the copyright.
If Apple or Intel are now using (parts of) it in their own product it would of course violate the copyright.
We will see
The courts will almost certainly consider looking at the source code as IP infringement.
Edited 2018-09-28 02:37 UTC
This is not about patents, copyright or IP directly.
It’s about Apple signing a lot of NDA and other contracts in return getting access to loads of internal Qualcom information, design documents etc. Basically giving them trusted partner access. Qualcom now accuses Apple for taking all know-how learned and use it to help Intel improve their products, despite having contracts with Qualcom not to do so.
Whether this has merit or not, who can say at this point. But it will not be the first time Apple has screwed a partner or sub-contractor.
It’s doesn’t matter the outcome because what will really screw Apple is the new tariffs for China. Which is fine by me as it will hopefully bring back the jobs to the US and stop them copying our tech. Also, your time of exploiting others cheap labor, without even passing the discount to your customers by still charging us a ridiculous 4-500% margin over costs must come to an end Apple. No company needs to be as greedy as you and you are one of the greediest, though what do you expect from a company that depicts mans original sin in their logo.
Seriously, ask yourself why Apple products that are built in China are more expensive than any other computers on the market. No, it’s not because they are built better, in fact Xiaomi basically has the key to everything Apple, that’s just what the Chinese do. As such they are now literally building laptops that are practically identical to that of a MacBook Pro, down to the friggen bolts, they even use the same suppliers for Aluminium and do all of this at a fraction of the cost. Well, actually the costs are the same as a MacBook, they don’t charge the same and very insane margins that Apple does.
So I think it’s a good thing if Apple leaves China, they copy everything. There is simply no security for US companies making products there. Any Chinese company who wants to take a look at the schematics is welcomed to it. I mean when it comes to the point where they are building F-35 fighter jet’s from stolen plans, it’s time to cut them off for awhile.
Also I think it’s about time that Apple justifies their high costs, bringing back jobs and making products again in the US will bring a lot of good will. Who knows, I might just start buying Apple products again, well, that is if they completely rewrite iOS, as man, I hate, hate, no, loathe that OS.
Edited 2018-09-28 19:02 UTC
That fruit most likely wasn’t apple / it’s just a popular myth.
(and everybody copies everything / as much as they can; look up what was the US first cruise missile, or the origin of US stealth tech, or of APAS; also, gunpowder and rockets…)
Somehow, Apple products have remained untouched by tarrifs.
Just shows how insanely high margins Apple has, they can easily absorb tarrifs without much impact.
As long as with separate teams for documentation and reimplementation (why else would you do it?) / clean room methodology…
For the source code consideration, the reference is taken from https://www.routersupports.co/netgear-technical-support/ and the drivers are also updated by the team.
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Lawyers making shitloads of money for no dogdamn reason, again.
At the end you have to remember that in both of those companies work people just like you and me that want to do a good job.
They are driven to do those kinds of things because of our economical system that puts the constant growth as the most important thing.
This leads to good things, such as improvement to products, and bad things just like this crazy litigation, people overworking themselves.
hehe, why is it so funny?) though privacy is a great concern for the site that provides academic writing assistance for college students. you can double check https://writingcheap.com/cheap-custom-writing-service.htm
Edited 2018-09-28 18:49 UTC
“Is there any way they can both lose?”
Let them eat each other, both are monopolistic monsters, but I would say Apple is the worst of them.