“Imagine everyone starts using PCs in the 1980s, but it turns out that if you use an IBM PC, you can only use IBM approved software. If use an Apple PC, you can only use Apple approved software,”

“[Gonzalez Rogers’] colleague on the northern district of California wrote a 233 page, very detailed, fact-finding opinion, and it was just summarily thrown out root and branch,”

“I think that’s got to affect how far the judge is willing to stick her neck out on this issue.”

“If Apple can characterize this as, ‘Look, this is just the price we charge for access to the app store. And we could charge a single upfront price, or we could charge a monthly fee, or we could charge it in some other way, and the way we chose to charge our price is a share of the revenue you make.’ … Courts give a lot of deference to those [arguments],”

“If Apple can persuade the court that this is just about … Apple’s control of its own store and the prices it wants to charge, then Qualcomm says not quite ‘Do whatever you want, we don’t care,’ but something pretty close to that,”