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Old 10-10-2020, 01:21 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by John F View Post
But the phones already have BT, so there is no extra cost for the hardware? And are we sure that licensing is more? Doing a quick Google for BT licensing, it cost Apple $4000 for each model (although I would guess that there may be more licensing costs for some of the codecs.). Let's say they sell 500,000 of a model, so that comes out to $100,000 for the audio jack.
It's the earphone part that costs more for BT. It's free basically as it's in all the WiFi chips used in phones. It's also poor compared to €10 headphones.
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