Apple tells court it would pay no more than $1 per iPhone to license Motorola patents

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  • Reply 21 of 61
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,743member

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    Originally Posted by aaarrrgggh View Post





    Is it confirmed that the rate is on BOM vs sale price for Moto? (I know you have been religiously saying it is BOM, but I thought I understood otherwise.)


    Actually I've posted both. Sometime back, several months ago now, I had read that while Qualcomm based their even higher percentage royalty rates on the BOM, Moto was pegging theirs to the wholesale price of the device, effectively making it a higher real dollar cost. More recently tho, in conjunction with the similar MS case, I've seen that Moto's requested royalty base is also on the BOM, with the additional cap limit on total royalties. No one, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft or Moto, Nokia etc, is particularly forthcoming on details with of them all spinning it in their best interests.

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  • Reply 22 of 61
    In Apple's filing regarding the $1 figure they claim Motorola's demand for a percentage of revenue is too high.

    Maybe my definition is wrong, but to me revenue equals retail price, not BOM.
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  • Reply 23 of 61
    wardcwardc Posts: 150member


    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be in, Apple has turned the telephone into a toy in my opinion. In their pony show with the iPhones, they have ignored their Pro customers and lost focus on what made the company great in the first place...The Mac Pro has been ignored, the 17" MacBook Pro has been dropped, XServe is no more, and Apple has burned bridges with Adobe (who used to be a strong industry partner of Apple's for many years). I don't like the direction Apple is headed these days, and everytime I read another one of these stories or discussion board about people milling over iPhone importance, it is like fingernails on a blackboard. Simply sick of this stuff. I'm ready for Apple to be Apple Computer, Inc. once again, not a consumer toy company.

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  • Reply 24 of 61
    snova wrote: »
    not sure what the problem is. Google will get back their ROI back when Apple ships 12.5 billion iPhones.  Just have to sell two iPhones to every single person on the planet. 

    :-) I'll take two iPhones any day! But seriously, so much for "do no harm", eh? Jerks.
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  • Reply 25 of 61
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member

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    Originally Posted by Cash907 View Post



    Huh. Wonder how well it'll fly when Samsung follows suit and dictates to the court what penalties it's willing to pay, cuz that's apparently the world we live in now.


     


    Then Samsung would be guilty of contempt of court and would face further penalties.

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  • Reply 26 of 61


    Come on Apple! Give them $4. That's $200 million if you sell 50 million phones which is nothing compared to your annual revenue of $100 billion  plus. Feed the children of motorola. image

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  • Reply 27 of 61
    wardcwardc Posts: 150member


    Also, Motorola used to make the processor inside every Macintosh. The 68xxx chip was a Motorola chip, and the PowerPC was an Apple/IBM/Motorola alliance for design and manufacturing the chips. Motorola and Apple used have a great relationship, and Steve Jobs destroyed that when he wanted to produce a phone. That was when Apple computers started using intel processors, the TRUE main reason why Apple ditched PowerPC was over the iPhone and competition with Motorola.


     


    The Macintosh would be better today, still running on PowerPC if it were not for the iPhone.

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  • Reply 28 of 61


    Originally Posted by WardC View Post

    The Macintosh would be better today, still running on PowerPC if it were not for the iPhone.


     


    It would certainly be slower, receive fewer updates, run hotter, not be in laptops… 

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  • Reply 29 of 61
    jragostajragosta Posts: 10,473member
    wardc wrote: »
    Also, Motorola used to make the processor inside every Macintosh. The 68xxx chip was a Motorola chip, and the PowerPC was an Apple/IBM/Motorola alliance for design and manufacturing the chips. Motorola and Apple used have a great relationship, and Steve Jobs destroyed that when he wanted to produce a phone. That was when Apple computers started using intel processors, the TRUE main reason why Apple ditched PowerPC was over the iPhone and competition with Motorola.

    The Macintosh would be better today, still running on PowerPC if it were not for the iPhone.

    wardc wrote: »
    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be in, Apple has turned the telephone into a toy in my opinion. In their pony show with the iPhones, they have ignored their Pro customers and lost focus on what made the company great in the first place...The Mac Pro has been ignored, the 17" MacBook Pro has been dropped, XServe is no more, and Apple has burned bridges with Adobe (who used to be a strong industry partner of Apple's for many years). I don't like the direction Apple is headed these days, and everytime I read another one of these stories or discussion board about people milling over iPhone importance, it is like fingernails on a blackboard. Simply sick of this stuff. I'm ready for Apple to be Apple Computer, Inc. once again, not a consumer toy company.


    You might want to educate yourself on a subject before making yourself look foolish.

    The iPhone was released in 2007. Apple announced its transition to Intel in 2005. So how would they still be running on PPC if they had never released the iPhone? Furthermore, how would their holding off on releasing the iPhone have made IBM and Motorola magically fix the technical problems that they were never able to solve? Would IBM and Motorola have been able to magically cut the G5's power consumption to a low enough level to be used in laptops if Apple didn't release the iPhone 2 years later? How does that work?

    Furthermore, even your basic premise is unfounded. It may well be that Apple's move to the iPod and iPhone and iPad are what has allowed them to thrive enough to continue to invest heavily in computers. Without the iOS devices, it is likely that Apple would have much lower share than they do today.

    Adobe? You have things backwards. Adobe abandoned Apple in the 90s. They released products that were optimized for Windows and let the Mac versions languish. They even went so far as to offer free cross-grades for Mac users to switch to Windows. Adobe futzed around for what seemed like ages after the Intel transition before releasing even a half-hearted attempt at making an Intel version of their Mac software. And Adobe never took advantage of the features of iOS.

    xServe? Completely irrelevant. Apple never had any significant server market share and has never been able to build a decent server business in spite of numerous attempts in the past. While it's unfortunate that the xServe was dropped, Apple made it clear that few people were buying them - so few people suffered from that change.
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  • Reply 30 of 61

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    Originally Posted by mwhiteco View Post




    That is the problem with the arm chair lawyers they think they know everything.



     


    And you expected to find practicing lawyers lurking in these forums? Because it doesn't pay very well...

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  • Reply 31 of 61
    gtrgtr Posts: 3,231member
    gatorguy wrote: »
    ...which according to them is 2.25% of the device BOM, with a cap on the total royalties for the FRAND pledged package of patents. There is evidence that their standard published base rate has been 2.25% of the device cost for several years now. Whether they actually  get that from companies with anywhere near the volume of an Apple or Microsoft is a big question-mark. Of course that's still well under the base rate that Nokia is reported to charge for their FRAND patents, and Apple found a way to settle with them.

    Cash's attempt to change the definition of FRAND to UUAD aside, I think 2.25% is fair...

    ...for Motorola to pay Apple.

    Hey, it's been a long time since they sold the RAZR and they'd probably welcome to opportunity to be involved in a successful product again, not to mention the prestige of having their technology used inside one of the most successful phones in the world.

    ;-)
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  • Reply 32 of 61
    wardcwardc Posts: 150member


    Jobs wanted to distance himself (the company) as far from Motorola as possible, going into the phone market...Motorola did not want to be partnered with Apple any longer if Apple was going to be in direct competition with them in the phone market. The transition to intel was in 2006, development having started about a year earlier...the iPhone was under development at Apple at the same time as well. All of this took place, the transition to intel, the iPhone release...within a year of each other. It was not coincidental.

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  • Reply 33 of 61
    desuserigndesuserign Posts: 1,316member


    I'm guessing that the latest iPhone is far more powerful than my last PPC based MacPro (Sawtooth.) I would imagine that any of the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch devices produced today would qualify as a 1999 supercomputer. Many people may see them as toys and treat them as toys, but they're sophisticated mobile computers that fit in your pocket and run on 99 cents of electricity a month.


     


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    Originally Posted by WardC View Post


    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be in, Apple has turned the telephone into a toy in my opinion. In their pony show with the iPhones, they have ignored their Pro customers and lost focus on what made the company great in the first place...The Mac Pro has been ignored, the 17" MacBook Pro has been dropped, XServe is no more, and Apple has burned bridges with Adobe (who used to be a strong industry partner of Apple's for many years). I don't like the direction Apple is headed these days, and everytime I read another one of these stories or discussion board about people milling over iPhone importance, it is like fingernails on a blackboard. Simply sick of this stuff. I'm ready for Apple to be Apple Computer, Inc. once again, not a consumer toy company.


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  • Reply 34 of 61


    Originally Posted by WardC View Post

    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be in…


     


    Please don't own Apple stock.


     




    …Apple has turned the telephone into a toy in my opinion.



     


    It's quite possible you're the only human on the planet with that opinion. 


     



    I don't like the direction Apple is headed these days…


     


    Profitability? Customer satisfaction? Creating multi-billion dollar industries and thousands of jobs out of absolutely nothing? Sheer success? 






    I'm ready for Apple to be Apple Computer, Inc. once again, not a consumer toy company.



     


    As someone who wants them to show more interest in computers as well, you're losin' it.

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  • Reply 35 of 61
    Apple is simply setting the stage with an offer out in the public's mind so if Google comes back and says no, they look like they are being greedy and abusing FRAND standards patents.

    Basically, it's a genius move. They look a lot more guilty of abuse if they don't at least counter or agree. If they come in at a higher rate, Apple can come back and say ok, REPRESENT and show us the money, ie.what others are paying so I know it's fair. :D

    Genius..

    Of course, Google could always come back and request something under $1, and it goes away.. but I don't think so, they want leverage, so we know they are trying to look for some type of loop-hole. Will be interesting to watch..

    ;)
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  • Reply 36 of 61
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    adrayven wrote: »
    Apple is simply setting the stage with an offer out in the public's mind so if Google comes back and says no, they look like they are being greedy and abusing FRAND standards patents.
    Basically, it's a genius move. They look a lot more guilty of abuse if they don't at least counter or agree. If they come in at a higher rate, Apple can come back and say ok, REPRESENT and show us the money, ie.what others are paying so I know it's fair. :D
    Genius..
    Of course, Google could always come back and request something under $1, and it goes away.. but I don't think so, they want leverage, so we know they are trying to look for some type of loop-hole. Will be interesting to watch..
    <puts popcorn in microwave, extra butter> ;)

    Do you really think that the general public has any knowledge of this? I believe it's a standard low ball offer and that they'll agree to go a little higher.
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  • Reply 37 of 61

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    Originally Posted by WardC View Post


    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be in, Apple has turned the telephone into a toy in my opinion. In their pony show with the iPhones, they have ignored their Pro customers and lost focus on what made the company great in the first place...The Mac Pro has been ignored, the 17" MacBook Pro has been dropped, XServe is no more, and Apple has burned bridges with Adobe (who used to be a strong industry partner of Apple's for many years). I don't like the direction Apple is headed these days, and everytime I read another one of these stories or discussion board about people milling over iPhone importance, it is like fingernails on a blackboard. Simply sick of this stuff. I'm ready for Apple to be Apple Computer, Inc. once again, not a consumer toy company.



     


    Toy company??? Who cares about this stuff???


     


    You missed the part where the iPhone business made more revenue for Apple than all of Microsoft's products for the last 35 years combined.


     


    You missed the part where computing, wireless communications, and portability converged to create something the PC could never be: a take-anywhere, personal, always on, always plugged-in to the Internet computing device.


     


    You missed the part where computing for work is vastly outnumbered by consumer computing, because not everyone works, but everyone is a consumer. In effect, the consumer interest in technology is now the tail that's wagging the IT dog.


     


    Money talks, niche markets walk.


     


    Nothing about your "I hate iPhone" post makes sense. You ding Apple for "burning bridges with Adobe"... over what? Flash? You're in favor of Flash over HTML5 on mobile platforms? Wow, who is that shortsighted? And what, exactly do you think was lost in "burning bridges"? The only thing I see lost was a potentially terrible Flash plug-in for Mobile Safari that never got written and the gaping security holes it would bring to the iPhone. Adobe still publishes Mac software.


     


    You make it sound as if not licking Adobe's balls was the worst thing Apple ever did, but show me how it has had any net impact on Mac users, cause the last time I checked, Adobe is more than happy to take my goddamned upgrade money.

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  • Reply 38 of 61
    wardc wrote: »
    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. ...
    And Google should back to the industry them made them, search engine, and stop creating crappy phone OS.
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  • Reply 39 of 61

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by WardC View Post


    Who cares about all this stuff? Apple should get out of phones altogether and put their focus back into the industry that made them...the PERSONAL COMPUTER. Telephony is not a business Apple should be in, Apple has turned the telephone into a toy in my opinion. In their pony show with the iPhones, they have ignored their Pro customers and lost focus on what made the company great in the first place...The Mac Pro has been ignored, the 17" MacBook Pro has been dropped, XServe is no more, and Apple has burned bridges with Adobe (who used to be a strong industry partner of Apple's for many years). I don't like the direction Apple is headed these days, and everytime I read another one of these stories or discussion board about people milling over iPhone importance, it is like fingernails on a blackboard. Simply sick of this stuff. I'm ready for Apple to be Apple Computer, Inc. once again, not a consumer toy company.





    Indeed. Apple should tailor their business plan to your needs, and not to what they want to. It's all about your vision, your needs, not those of Jobs, Cook, Schiller or Ive.

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    macrulezmacrulez Posts: 2,455member


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