Yesterday, Apple quite intelligibly, using amusing figures of speech, explained that it does not like the current principles of determining licensing fees of Qualcomm. In some smartphones Apple uses Qualcomm modems, but even if they are not there, the iPhone manufacturer must pay the owner of an impressive patent pool a certain amount, calculated as a fraction of the cost of the finished smartphone. Apple made it clear that it would like to change this proportion, and while the court does not recognize its right, the company is not going to renew license fees Qualcomm. By the way, Apple's demarche has already forced Qualcomm to lower its revenue forecast for the quarter by $ 500 million.
Official response of Qualcomm, in addition to the decline in revenue forecast, has not yet followed, but Bloomberg has information about the intentions of the American corporation to file a suit with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), so that it bans the import of Chinese smartphones from Apple to their "historical homeland" ". For Apple, which hopes to introduce a new iPhone by the end of the year, and also gets almost 40% of its revenue on the markets of both Americas, such a ban will be a serious blow.
For Qualcomm, fighting for royalties is a common thing. It has long and persistently tried to get Chinese smartphone manufacturers to provide true statistics on the number of products sold, but they used understated figures to determine the amount of licensing fees. Qualcomm was forced to provide for the Chinese market smartphones special licensing conditions.
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