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A comment on Apple’s crackdown on multicast. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by shuckles on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @10:55AM (#28289651)
Standards patents must be made available to license. Apple tried really hard to invest in a competing cellular modem provider (Intel) and gave up. Turns out, they’re really hard to build, and that’s why you can’t build one. Not patents.
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Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by judge2020 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:27AM (#28290114)
Apple did purchase Intel's modem division[0], so while they temporarily have started purchasing from Qualcomm, maybe they're throwing more R&D at it than Intel did to actually compete with Qualcomm within the next few years.

0: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-acquire-the-...

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