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Apple chucks $3 at iPhone users after killing FaceTime on iOS 6 because it didn't want to pay connectivity charges

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If you lose a patent case...

...you have to do this. Paying for a patent to run software is a massive cost. For example, H264/HEVC costs you money when you buy a device that plays video, and that extortion is only limited because governments declared those patents FRAND.

Having said that, given that iOS7 was a free upgrade option anyway, Apple should have just put a downloadable iOS6 FaceTime app in the AppStore or something.

I'm surprised that their lawyers don't have all this covered in the EULA.

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