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Follow us on FacebookBroadcom take-over of Qualcomm appears to be about Apple
@ 2017/11/24Comment: Don your tin foil hat
This morning Apple’s official news agency Reuters ran a yarn about how beautiful life will be if Broadcom takes over Qualcomm.
It claimed that Broadcom’s $103 billion bid to buy Qualcomm would mean that there would be significant changes to Qualcomm’s patent licensing business.
Reuters claims that will make life much easier for regulators and “key customers” including Apple. Reuters claimed this would mean cheaper iPhones (forgetting that as iPhone sales fall Apple will raise prices to keep margins).
This morning Apple’s official news agency Reuters ran a yarn about how beautiful life will be if Broadcom takes over Qualcomm.
It claimed that Broadcom’s $103 billion bid to buy Qualcomm would mean that there would be significant changes to Qualcomm’s patent licensing business.
Reuters claims that will make life much easier for regulators and “key customers” including Apple. Reuters claimed this would mean cheaper iPhones (forgetting that as iPhone sales fall Apple will raise prices to keep margins).
