Apple will not use Q modem from next year, also err and related components. Not sure good news or bad news.
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May use INTC and MTK
So all you need to build a modem are digital designers? That‘s a rather novel approach there.
And once again, if AAPL were developing their own modem for next year‘s iPhone, we would know about it. You can‘t develop something like that below the radar (pun kinda intended). They would have to be doing initial operator testing and field testing RIGHT NOW to get this thing ready within the next 11 months. And that‘s something you can‘t keep secret. I know enough people at AT&T and Verizon who already would have called me: „Do you know what your favorite customer is doing in our lab right now?“
Hahahaha pay QC for what? Modem was developed with Mav. IP fool. Mav already have many digital designers to develop a modem with less glitches as QC.
They will have to pay royalties to Qcom if they develop their own modem. Apple will refuse, and this will result in a long legal battle that Qcom should win.
RF360: Show me the money.
If AAPL isn't going to use our modem next year then it will have to be their own modem. And if they had their own modem in the works, we would have heard about it through operator channels.
AAPL doesn't have the chip-level patents they need to beat RF360.
MAV doesn't know the secret modem sauce
What's the point of giving only read access to the modem code?
AAPL has full read access to QC or INTC modem code for more than 10 years, and in recent years they hired a lot of "good" QC engineers, who know every line of code even better than current QC engineers.
So, why not build an AAPL modem and get rid of QC CE's bullsh*ting?
Verizon won't allow this and you know it.
After all, the best T-Mobile handsets are obtained directly from Apple.
(I have no reason to upgrade my 7+. As long as I can get them, I care not...)
Apple doesn't care about putting anything innovative in their products, so this makes sense. Two generation behind Intel modems will do.
Qualcomm is the best forget all the rest.
The what are they going to use if not the Q modem? It‘s sure as hell not going to be the INTC modem. INTC may have been a viable alternative this and last year, but their product for next year is worse than what they delivered to AAPL this year.
Don't worry guys