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I suspect Apple wants to enable proprietary wireless features and they don’t want to involve Qualcomm in their IP
by someguydave 2y ago
I suspect Apple wants to enable proprietary wireless features and they don’t want to involve Qualcomm in their IP
- jorvi 2y agoApple can’t. Qualcomm’s special area of expertise is in cellular, not WiFi. And cellular is specced and regulated to the extreme. There’s nothing extra Apple can do that Qualcomm isn’t. They can optimize, but they can’t revolutionize.
- someguydave 2y agoAll true but there is more to RF than correctly implementing cellular comms
- piltdownman 2y agoNTN 3GPP Specs are only now being properly evaluated and set, with Ericsson/Qualcomm/Thales partnering to POC the tech on a 5 year roadmap. In the interim, a number of companies like Apple and Samsung are now offering Satellite based SOS Emergency Text services as a commercial reality, presumably straining the capabilities of the current modems to their capacity. Cellular is specced and regulated to the extreme between the FCC/3GPP Standards, but working within those constraints you already have two viable D2D Satellite 4G companies rolling out commercial services for unmodified cellular devices - ASTS and Lynk - with Lynk already offering commercial services. They could well be optimizing and revolutionizing in one go - particularly to support new paradigm shifts in the US Market Service provisionment. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240529554741/en/AST-SpaceMobile-and-Verizon-Announce-Plans-to-Target-100-Percent-Geographical-Coverage-of-the-Continental-United-States-from-Space-on-Premium-850-MHz-Cellular-Spectrum https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240529554741/en/AST...
- someguydave 2y agoIndeed, not to mention they could also optimize their bluetooth & wifi integration with cellular and space comms plus customized array processing. I also suspect Apple is working on other proprietary personal wireless systems