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NewsKrawler wrote:

Now that the Supreme Court has rejected Apple's arguments, we'll probably have to wait until that six-year license agreement begins to expire in 2025 to know what will happen next.

Both of these hotly contested Qualcomm patents expire in 2029. https://www.patentlyapple.com/2022/06/apple-not-releasing-their-own-5g-modem-chip-relates-to-a-long-standing-patent-battle-with-qualcomm-and-not-because-of-a-devel.html

WARNING: Adult information below... requiring adult cognitive skills...
(this ties it all together)

Apple argued that its royalty payments and risk of being
sued again after the six-year agreement expires were reasons for a hearing.

This is poignantly salient new information because it subtly hints that
Apple _already_ has designed that 5G modem but that those two Qualcomm
patents are what is preventing commercial release of an Apple-designed
modem.

Remember, it's not actually hard to design a 5G modem (even for Apple who
still hasn't been able to figure out how to _integrate_ an existing modem).

*What's hard is avoiding infringement upon the Qualcomm patents.*

The fact Apple was apparently desperate to nullify these two Qualcomm
patents is a possible clarion indicator that Apple lawyers are who "failed"
to get the Supreme Court to nullify those two critical 5G modem patents.

It's likely, IMHO, those highly paid lawyers informed Apple executives
they'd be risking handing over to Qualcomm yet another Ford class aircraft carrier, replete with personnel, weapons, avionics, aircraft, and fully
stocked with materiel) were they to commercially ship the current modem.

What this means though, is Apple is fucked. Royally.

I predict the following (most, if not all my predictions have come true)...
1. Apple will extend the existing contract (for two years I believe)
2. Then Apple will extend it yet again (for another two years I believe).
3. In 2029, when the two patents expire, only _then_ can the modem ship.

If you're not ignorant, you can put two and two together:
a. Apple argued that the patents held them back
b. The moment Apple _lost_ that argument in the Supreme Court
c. Ming-Chi Kuo publicized that Apple "failed"

Remember, being an adult and making adult assessments means you need
sufficient IQ and education to put disjoint bits of information together.
A. Apple _knew_ the patents were holding them back.
B. And the moment they lost the Supreme Court case, they "failed".

It all makes complete sense (to an adult).
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Yet again, Apple will be about a decade behind everyone else in hardware.

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