>gets paid very high license fees for everything that includes anything that talks to anything else over the air

And I think this is the major reason why they have stagnated and have not come out with any ARM SoC's capable of matching what Apple has. They can just rest on their laurels collecting rent from all their license fees while releasing an unimpressive new SoC every once in a while

I really hope one of the big x86 chip makers decides to dip their toes into ARM at some point