TwelveSilverSwords@alien.topB to Hardware@hardware.watchEnglish · 1 year agoApple to Discontinue Custom 5G Modem Development, Claim Reportswww.macrumors.comexternal-linkmessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: hardware@lemmit.onlineiphone@lemmit.onlineapple@hardware.watchapple@kbin.social
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minus-squarecountingthedays@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago there are other roadblocks in technology, Like not getting your ass sued off for violating some patent that some troll somewhere owns.
minus-squareExist50@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoApparently not a problem for Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, or Huawei. And Apple certainly doesn’t shy away from litigation.
minus-squarecountingthedays@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s not that Apple can’t do it, it’s that they don’t think it’s going to be worth the expense to them.
minus-squareExist50@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey’ve been trying. And thus far, failing.
minus-squareBen-D-Yair@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWht y there are so many of patents related to modems, but not on other things like cpu, gpu or idk what
Like not getting your ass sued off for violating some patent that some troll somewhere owns.
Apparently not a problem for Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, or Huawei. And Apple certainly doesn’t shy away from litigation.
It’s not that Apple can’t do it, it’s that they don’t think it’s going to be worth the expense to them.
They’ve been trying. And thus far, failing.
WellThereItIs.webp
Wht y there are so many of patents related to modems, but not on other things like cpu, gpu or idk what