The problem with Apple's internal culture is that even though engineers are brilliant and fully capable, products are designed from the top down. Apple employs

The problem with Apple's internal culture is that even though engineers are brilliant and fully capable, products are designed from the top down. Apple employs people who are a very passionate about wireless technology. VERY passionate. They just don't get the resources or freedom to take their products to the next level. They have to wait for someone from above to be sold on the idea. Yet, it never happens because the engineers are told to keep fixing bugs and keep things humming along. File a radar, and keep doing your job. Probably what happened, a few senior engineers got yanked onto the Watch project or this fabled car thing. They worked and worked and worked on it, and left the junior guys fixing macOS/iOS airport bugs. Then when it came time to build a new revision, they noticed suddenly they were WAY behind the market. Meanwhile, engineers continued fixing macOS/iOS bugs, this time for 3rd party systems, and bam, someone in upper management probably asked, "umm, why are we still building our own thing?" They probably merged the OS wireless teams with the driver team and called it a day. So here we are today, Bloomberg most likely got a tipoff from a disgruntled employee who didn't like they were killing the project.