Apple won’t put cellular in anything new until they think their own modems are good enough. Apple had a years-long lawsuit with Qualcomm which, to be extremely

Apple won’t put cellular in anything new until they think their own modems are good enough. Apple had a years-long lawsuit with Qualcomm which, to be extremely reductive, had as its main goal “stop charging us a licensing fee that’s a percentage of the final sale price of the device, you should charge a fixed price per chip”. Apple essentially gave up when they realized Intel was years away from making good enough modems, bought Intel’s modem group, which has been chugging away since then making still-not-good-enough modems.