When it comes to Nokia, I think slightly older friends should know that the achievements made at that time were no less than Apple's now, but Nokia did not grasp the situation well, and then slowly decoupled from the times, and the mobile phone business has been transferred. However, Nokia itself is a communications business, so it can live a very moisturizing life by charging patents alone.
However, for domestic mobile phones, there are indeed not many patent reserves in the 4G era, which also makes it difficult to sell mobile phones in the European market. Because of the problem of patent fees, OPPO and vivo's overseas plans have been seriously frustrated.
In May, OPPO not only closed its self-developed chip business Zheku, but also almost all the products on the German official website were removed from the shelves, because of patent issues. Now vivo has also encountered this situation, and the relevant person in charge of vivo confirmed to the media that the product has been removed from the official website in Germany.
Now the Vivo Germany website says: "Unfortunately, vivo products are not currently available in Germany, therefore, there is no product information on our German website." If you are using a vivo product, you can still rely on our customer service and you will also receive future software updates. ”
After inquiry, the current French market of OPPO, the Netherlands and Poland markets of vivo have also been affected.
Outrageously, Nokia said that it did not want Vivo to withdraw from the German market, and that the purpose of doing so was to seek fair compensation for our technology used in Vivo equipment.
Think about it from another angle, Nokia used to spend a lot of money on research and development, scientific and technological innovation, and now it is nothing to collect some patent fees, but insiders said that Nokia's fees for patents far exceed Huawei, Qualcomm and other companies.
Now in the effective global patent family (5G) patents, Huawei has become the first, accounting for 14.59%, Qualcomm ranks second, accounting for 10.04%; Samsung is in third place, accounting for 8.8%. Companies ranked fourth to tenth are ZTE, LG, Nokia, Ericsson, Datang, OPPO and Xiaomi.
It seems that business is the battlefield, or do you have to master the core technology, what do you think about this?