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I think it depends massively on how much it costs the company to provide. If it's just a chip and a bit more software I think companies will include it. It's no
by rtkwe 4y ago
I think it depends massively on how much it costs the company to provide. If it's just a chip and a bit more software I think companies will include it. It's not clear from the press reports if the money Apple spent on building up base stations for this are just for them or if the satellite providers could use them for other companies phones.
- totalZero 4y agoKnowing Qualcomm, there's probably a major royalty cost involved. If Apple spends $450 million to enable the service [0], that's about $2 per phone sold in 2021 [1]. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/apple-spending-450-million-with-globalstar-others-for-satellite-texting.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/apple-spending-450-million-w... [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/apple-expects-to-sustain-iphone-sales-in-2022-as-market-slows https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-11/apple-exp...