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> - bring on the 5G iPhones now, perhaps this makes Samsung the biggest loser out of this as apple is now ready for the nextgen cell service and Qualcomm is no
by devy 7y ago
> - bring on the 5G iPhones now, perhaps this makes Samsung the biggest loser out of this as apple is now ready for the nextgen cell service and Qualcomm is no longer negotiation from a position of weakness
Apple was cornered in the 5G basedband chipset procurement before the settlement as the only viable solution was to ask Huawei (Huawei actually welcomed this :-) And now Apple's future iPhone is in a much better position in connectivity given Qualcomm becomes the chosen vendor again (before that, Samsung / Qualcomm weren't options).
- baybal2 7y ago> Apple was cornered in the 5G basedband chipset procurement before the settlement as the only viable solution was to ask Huawei (Huawei actually welcomed this :-) To the extend of my knowledge of those talks, Huawei proposed "you buy the whole Kirin 990 SoC, no separate modem for you" and Apple walked out right away
- PedroBatista 7y agoI find it hard to believe they proposed such thing if they were serious about selling anything to Apple. They already knew the answer.
- baybal2 7y agoGiven the mindset of senior managers in companies like HW, I think it would be not something unexpected. I once thought of tech companies being ran buy bankers and lawyers as an American thing, but Chinese MNCs have since outdone US on that few times over