Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets

• Overshoot2648@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lots of Utilities are consumer cooperatives which is funnily enough Socialist, but the people working there wouldn’t like to hear that.

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nobody else is allowed to sell these licenses

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But they can sell phones.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s called “monopolistic competition”. They can’t sell the same phone they were already making.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes. I’m not saying it’s not monopolistic behavior. I’m saying it’s not a government sanctioned monopoly.

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