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> They're not going to magically stuff that into an iPhone. This sounds a bit like Ed Colligan's immortal "they're not going to just walk in." The thing is, y
by mortenjorck 5y ago
> They're not going to magically stuff that into an iPhone.
This sounds a bit like Ed Colligan's immortal "they're not going to just walk in."
The thing is, you're right, of course they're not going to just tweak a few things and somehow fit a satellite antenna into a phone. They're going to put Apple-level resources into recruiting a team of the field's leading experts and funding them for years to do it.
As you say, this would be a genuinely disruptive development in mobile tech. It seems at very least plausible that Apple would see this as a problem worth throwing a spare billion at solving.
- mcny 5y ago» This sounds a bit like Ed Colligan's immortal "they're not going to just walk in." Some context for others like me > Sarah Jane Tribble and Dean Takahashi, reporting for the San Jose Mercury News on Palm CEO Ed Colligan’s remarks two weeks ago regarding Apple’s prospects in the mobile phone market: » Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector. » “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” https://daringfireball.net/2006/11/colligan_head_stuck https://daringfireball.net/2006/11/colligan_head_stuck
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI’m sure Apple would love to find a way to bypass the mobile operators, especially in the US.