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Re:Qualcomm accuses Apple of giving its chip secrets to Intel by adventured on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:03PM (#18068171)
That's not a gentleman's agreement. It's the exact opposite when you actually consider the target of abuse in the agreement: their own employees, people, whose lives they were seeking to actively harm.

If they'll actively, illegally, seek to harm their own people, who could question whether they'd illegally try to harm a competing company? It makes perfect sense that that would be in the realm of consideration.

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Re:Qualcomm accuses Apple of giving its chip secrets to Intel by posterboy on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:36PM (#18101643)
You can also see it differently: When the supply is locked out, they have to compete on price harder from the beginning and have less opportunity to fire. If there's an oversupply, of course it's a bit different.
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