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Even Apple isn't satisfied with its own work on modems if rumors are to be believed. I'm sure Apple will gladly spend billions of dollars in research and own th
by mcny 3y ago
Even Apple isn't satisfied with its own work on modems if rumors are to be believed. I'm sure Apple will gladly spend billions of dollars in research and own the modem rather than pay Qualcomm year after year.
Just some napkin math, Apple had 232M iPhone sales in 2022. If Apple paid USD 8 (low end estimate) per iPhone sold, that would be USD 1.8B just for 2022.
If I were Apple, I'd gladly spend USD 2B a year if that meant I would not have to pay Qualcomm USD 1.8B
My guess is this work is actually difficult
especially given all the patents/royalty traps you'd have to avoid
and not something people have not simply gotten around to doing.
- al_borland 3y agoI’m not discounting the difficulty at all, but at Apple’s scale they need a lot more reliability than what I’d require for my own hacky little modem. From what I’ve read, a big part of Apple’s issues are size and heat, which would be less of an issue as a stand-alone device, as miniaturization is less important.