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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by notyourday on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:49PM (#30077832)
> You need access to the software that runs those SOCs which is owned by Qualcomm. Qualcomm isn't just going to give the sourcecode of those SOCs for Google engineers to tinker around with it. It creates all kinds of crazy legal problems

QCOM Mkt cap 188.12B

Alphabet Mkt cap 1.70T

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by svnt on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:31PM (#30081325)
Alphabet cannot buy Qualcomm for the same reason Nvidia could not buy Arm.

If your implication is that someone market cap equals negotiating leverage you would only be right if Alphabet was the only elephant that Qualcomm was in bed with.

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