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This article makes it sound like Apple and Intel and poor victims of Qualcomm's bullying. That is hardly the case. Both are much bigger than Qualcomm, and have been bullies in their own way. Funny to see them cry wolf

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Try working at say LG, HTC, BlackBerry, anyone that wasn't top dog in their ecosystem.

You pay Qualcomm a lot of money just to get access to the modems, but they'll ignore you for bug fixes, firmware, etc...

The word Qualcomm drop (update in the Qualcomm code) sent a shiver down my spine. They'd fix one bug and introduce two others, that is if the bug big enough that they couldn't simply ignore you in the first place.

This is more or less totally false more than any other hardware vendor Qualcomm delivers working phones to its chipset customers so that they can copy and modify the designs and so that they succeed it's the failure of Intel to provide a well-integrated working product to customers that made them flop. Qualcomm provides demo phones and schematics for every generation of chipset.

Big, rich victims.

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