&gt; Heck, I give more credit to the tertiary industries such as the people delivering the iPhone packages to my door, than I do to any owner of a patent for a product that they didn&#x27;t build.<p>The iPhone would be shit if it wasn&#x27;t for the advanced radio it uses that is based off of Ericsson&#x27;s technology. There are lots of patents in the agreement and some may seem dodgy, but you can&#x27;t deny that Ericsson had a huge hand in developing all the radio stuff that we just take for granted. Apple isn&#x27;t part of the 3GPP and had nothing to do with inventing any part of 2G&#x2F;3G&#x2F;4G&#x2F;LTE.<p>Even Apple doesn&#x27;t deny this, they just wanted a different royalty rate after their previous agreement with Ericsson expired.