BlackBerry Awarded $800M in Arbitration Against Qualcomm

How much value is added by Qualcomm to a Blackberry or iPhone? My limited understanding is that every sold - even unrelated - feature added to the phone effectively included a tax to Qualcomm. It is a great business model until it isn't.

nullnilvoid• 9 years ago

BlackBerry is coming back (not to smartphone market which they lost completely), as a company. The stock price has been surging.

JohnJamesRambo• 9 years ago

What do they sell?

kogepathic• 9 years ago

Mobile device management (MDM) software.

Basically they tweaked BES to work with iOS/Android and are now selling it to enterprise as a solution for BYOD management.

jplayer01• 9 years ago

Lawsuits.

giarc• 9 years ago

I don't think I would say it is "surging". It is up on this news, but if you remove the last 2 weeks it's unchanged since late 2015.

revelation2• 9 years ago

We [..] look forward to collaborating with Qualcomm in security for ASICs

BlackBerry is a mobile-native security software and services company dedicated to securing people

???

Can someone explain what BlackBerry think they are doing nowadays?

ufoolme• 9 years ago

(fairly sure) Blackberry still owns QNX, which is still very popular in high-security environments such as automotives.

flamedoge• 9 years ago

lol..

"BlackBerry and Qualcomm have a longstanding relationship and continue to be valued technology partners," said John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry.

Continuation highly questionable

emmp• 9 years ago

They've always had BES, and they bought Good Technology which was used by just about every big bank and Government/military agency. They've got a huge presence in orgs with regulated security requirements for mobile comms.

Overtonwindow• 9 years ago

This should keep them going another year...

BlackBerry Awarded $800M in Arbitration Against Qualcomm

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