That said, Qualcomm's bad behavior has harmed the rest of us far, far more than just costing us a little extra for each phone. That Intel and Samsung have not been able to enter the market means that Qualcomm gets to dictate not just prices, but what you can buy. As the only implementer of many standards, they get to say what will be in standards, so the standards are ruinously complex to keep anybody smaller from being able to implement them. They get to dictate what RF engineers are paid. And so on. Monopoly power is poison wherever it operates.