Apple sues Qualcomm, saying chipmaker withheld $1B as “extortion”

Qualcomm double dipping (charging chip vendors & their customers) is plain unfair. The only thing they aren't doing is sending IP notices to end users of phones, like you & I.

That said, sympathizing with Apple is hard. Ironic for a company that hardly allows any freedom on it's hardware (blocking NFC for 3rd parties for instance, requiring MFI certification for accessories at a steep cost) or app store (ultra strict, often whimsical app approval policies that stifle innovation) to cry foul.

Apple & Qualcomm deserve each other.

Without knowing more, not particularly sympathetic to either party involved here, (lawyers are good at drafting statements about how hard done by their companies are over patents infringement and royalties/damages), but qcom have done well out of e.g. cdma patents http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112056555346377303