Apple 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.
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.
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.
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