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I would consider it a downside to consumers if there are no savings or benefits passed on; they are paying in opportunity cost. I'm assuming there are other eff
by NotMichaelBay 2y ago
I would consider it a downside to consumers if there are no savings or benefits passed on; they are paying in opportunity cost. I'm assuming there are other efforts that would be beneficial to consumers that Apple is not spending time on.
- Pet_Ant 2y agoI assume the point of Apple owning their own modem is not just not to pay Qualcomm, but also to integrate more deeply. I’m betting that they’ll be able to integrate it with their CPU and perhaps reuse the ALU so that there is efficiency there and maybe a boost in battery life or a thinner device.
- saurik 2y agoFWIW, if Apple wanted to maximize long-term benefit (not saying they are, but also am not wanting to say they aren't), even if there were no benefit from doing this (which I actually doubt) and even if there were no price reduction, they would still get around to doing this action as it would let them invest more money later into engineers that work on things they care about, as opposed to things Qualcomm cares about, and hopefully/maybe that correlates with things you/I care about.