Making the Apple to Android switch

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by Bo

Even if it did, the company has sold a billion iOS devices. Since the worst case is having to pay Qualcomm $1.50 per device, that's $1.5 billion, or .15% of a trillion.

And 1.5 billion is nothing to Apple. Worse comes to worse, they’ll just buy Qualcomm out.

[lchoro]

Originally Posted by Bo

Even if it did, the company has sold a billion iOS devices. Since the worst case is having to pay Qualcomm $1.50 per device, that's $1.5 billion, or .15% of a trillion.

Those are just the three patents upheld in the trial. The stock value is mainly based on the ability of the company to repurchase its stock. They've spent over 200 billion dollars over the last five years.