Qualcomm Collected Partial iPhone Royalties Despite Legal Battle With Apple

From a report: Qualcomm continued to collect some royalties for Apple's use of its wireless technology in iPhones last year despite dueling lawsuits between the two mobile giants, cheering Qualcomm investors who feared that the payments had entirely dried up. Qualcomm said on Wednesday that Apple's contract manufacturers including Foxconn paid royalties, although they withheld around $1 billion from the undisclosed total amount due. The amount withheld equaled the amount Qualcomm withheld from Apple last year under a separate agreement to cooperate on mobile technology that has since expired.

Open-source smartphone

[DrYak]

apple and android are the same shit. what we need is open source smartphones

Android ITSELF *IS* open-source.
The things which are not open-source are :
- the drivers for hardware (so you're limited to whatever linux kernel the chipset vendor supplied to the handset manufacturer)
- the fuckton of pre-installed bloatware by the constructor
- the "Google Playstoe Service" if the handset went for an official commercial Google certification
(or whatever else services and ecosystem replaces it if the constructor decided to go its own way. Such Amazon's service)
- the whole booting process isn'

Re:

[Luthair]

Drivers are supplied by the hardware manufacturers, go talk to them or write your own.

It's almost as if

[enjar]

Two gigantic corporations can do more than one thing at a time.