Apple developing their own internal modems provides a competitive advantage even before it’s released. It applies competitive pressure to Qualcomm to accelerate development. Actually just the threat of Apple switching to its own modems probably provides more pressure than Apple releasing sh*tty modems.
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Qualcomm is fine.
They saw how well it went last time Apple tried to use different modems. The Intel modem on the GSM Iphone 7 was so bad, it turned me into a Android user.
Even companies as big as Google, and Samsung cannot get away from QC. The Pixel 8 is a joke for reception vs a phone with a proper QC modem.
Didn’t they resort to Intel modems because Qualcomm wasn’t producing them fast enough to meet demand?
bruh what, its been like 5 years. each engineer is probably costing atleast 300k and still nothing?
Fire people. This isn't IBM.
Bloomberg had published more inaccurate and fanciful crap about Apple than just about any other outlet. It’s almost pathological.
I mean.... Apple could buy Qualcomm. At least theoretically
Never has an acquisition been blocked as fast and forcefully as that one would. When you consider in some markets Qualcomm is already a monopoly (modems), their main competitor in other markets acquiring them would be catastrophic for competition.
Damn.. Qualcomm should go ahead and cancel providing theirs. Apple would stand there pretty badly😂😂
And Qualcomm would no longer have a nice cash cow
intel won this one when apple convinced themselves buying that failing business unit was a good idea.