mrclean816

November 22, 2009 at 10:58am

"Licensees must pay 5% of the wholesale price of a 3G device to the patent owner."

"The Bernstein report says that Qualcomm is being paid royalties not on
the price Apple charges (average $590), but on the unit price Apple
pays Foxconn, a mere $244."

 

Did I miss something? Didn't the first part say Qualcomm gets payed on the wholesale price and not the retail price.

 Where is the loophole?

schwit

November 21, 2009 at 7:57pm

Either Apple is complying with the law or contracts or they are not. Apple is a public company and therefore has a legal obligation to its stockholders to get their stock as high as possible.  The Qualcomm arrangement is a clever but legal way to ensure expenses are kept to a minimum.

It would be naive to think that every company paying Qualcomm is not looking for methods to reduce royalty payments.

aviaggio

November 21, 2009 at 9:40am

Typical. Apple uses every trick in the book to scam every single penny it can, but when consumers use "loopholes" to jailbreak their phones or create hackintoshes Apple goes all apeshit.

Hypocrisy much Mr. Jobs?

keithfreitag

November 21, 2009 at 7:44am

And they pass the saving on to you... oh wait, no they don't.  Mac's are the most expensive per underperformance price ratio around.  It may save apple $290 Million a year but they are still making money off suckers who think a macbook, imac or mac pro are worth the apple tax.  Get real qualcom, change your licensing fee's to include the sold price in store to collect and not the sold to apple price.

Steve Jobs is the Devil and loves it when someone plays with his loophole and he qualcomm's all over.

Keith

bart3385

November 21, 2009 at 6:19am

Greedy.