Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he forced Samsung to attack Qualcomm, according to some information released yesterday in connection with the legal battle between the first and last of the companies. Apple put pressure on Samsung through one of its managers, who asked the representative of the Korean company to talk to the authorities in South Korea to investigate Qualcomm and put pressure on the company in that country.
The managers of Apple and Samsung would have met at a conference that would have taken place somewhere in the American state of Idaho, he asking the Koreans to become more aggressive in relation to Qualcomm. The discussion between the two seems to have been successful, because as a result the authorities in South Korea began to investigate Qualcomm, so that in the end the company would be fined for the way it licenses its technologies to partners.
It is speculated that it would be a meeting between Tim Cook, the president of Apple and Jay Y. Lee, the vice president of the board of directors of Samsung, who is now under arrest. Those from Qualcomm claim that then Apple asked, apparently through Tim Cook, that it be investigated by the South Korean authorities, and considering Lee's influence, it is understandable why Qualcomm was fined.
Qualcomm made these accusations in a response to one of the lawsuits that Apple opened against it in the US, so the accusation probably has some real basis. If the information is real, then it is clear that Apple manipulated the whole situation and that Qualcomm was fined at the request of the Americans, so it will be interesting to see what other revelations will be made in this case.
"The story starts two summers ago, at a conference in Idaho, where a senior Apple executive, probably Cook, and a senior Samsung Electronics Co. executive, most likely Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee. ...the Apple executive urged Samsung to pressure South Korean antitrust regulators to intensify an investigation into Qualcomm that had been open since 2014. "Get aggressive," the Apple executive said."
