If this were posted in any of the Apple forum, you will get their Fans suggesting Qualcomm are not innovative, bully and price gouging.
And if ( and that is a big if ) Qualcomm's number are true, I think this is quite an achievement in terms of radio performance "just" on your cell phone.
Freakin' Qualcomm and their latest non-innovation that no one cares about and means nothing to anyone. They are going to price gouge and bully Apple into using this worthless junk! I love Steve Jobs forever and I hope someady Apple can gene-engineer a clone because if Steve were here he wouldn't take this anti-competitive crap laying down.
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to explain the joke, but for ahem...high density folks like yourself, I'll at lease give you a hint. Read the post above mine. Then read mine. Repeat the process a few times if needed and it might eventually make sense. If you still don't get it and want to be offended, then go for it and enjoy that life of yours where the dots never get connected to one another.
I sold a particularly stubborn person on a phone upgrade because it would get them better service, as they had no idea that was a benefit beforehand.
"More (LTE) bars" is a huge selling point for a new phone. If Qualcomm started advertising that more prominantly than absurd peak bandwidth numbers, I think it would move a lot more chips...
Interesting thought. I am starting to wonder if Qualcomm could do something like Qualcomm inside like Intel inside campaign.
I dont know any average consumers cares much about the CPU speed, all they know is newer and faster. But literally every consumers cares about their reception. If Qualcomm can try to sell that with an All in One Package from Modem to RF Filters they could win lots more consumer mind set.
It used to matter. I think at some point call quality and data speed in less than ideal areas will become more compelling again. Especially as smart phones start to become more of commodity items like the dumb phones where in the past.
It's well known that if you ask them, people would rather have some slight improvement in what they already know than a true innovation because people can definitively see how the improvement can help them but they cannot see the possibilities opened up by the substantial change.
So this advancement will give better signal quality, and lower latency on the edges of coverage? Better signal quality, further out of range, is a good thing, no matter who makes the modem. Apple bought intels division, for a reason, so they won’t have to run to Qualcomm. The problem, though, is intel gave up, because they couldn’t compete with Qualcomm’s solutions. Apple may have a bought a brick, just like google did, buying htc’s phone dev team. Nothing really great is coming from Google’s acquisition, and it shows in sales of current pixels. Apple will use Qualcomm’s modems, til they can catch up to Qualcomm, in performance from the division they bought from intel.
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FreckledTrout - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
Would we expect this to show up in Apple's next generation phone?SydneyBlue120d - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
Apple try to use as less as possible from Qualcomm.FreckledTrout - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
Why I asked :) However they did sign a multiple year contract so who knows.ksec - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
If this were posted in any of the Apple forum, you will get their Fans suggesting Qualcomm are not innovative, bully and price gouging.And if ( and that is a big if ) Qualcomm's number are true, I think this is quite an achievement in terms of radio performance "just" on your cell phone.
PeachNCream - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
Freakin' Qualcomm and their latest non-innovation that no one cares about and means nothing to anyone. They are going to price gouge and bully Apple into using this worthless junk! I love Steve Jobs forever and I hope someady Apple can gene-engineer a clone because if Steve were here he wouldn't take this anti-competitive crap laying down.niva - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
Apple is free to come up with a better solution on their own and I'm sure when that happens they won't charge their customers a premium for it.[email protected] - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
This is not a ego “rant” site. There are plenty of dedicated android sites for fan mail. Grow up.PeachNCream - Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - link
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to explain the joke, but for ahem...high density folks like yourself, I'll at lease give you a hint. Read the post above mine. Then read mine. Repeat the process a few times if needed and it might eventually make sense. If you still don't get it and want to be offended, then go for it and enjoy that life of yours where the dots never get connected to one another.brucethemoose - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
I sold a particularly stubborn person on a phone upgrade because it would get them better service, as they had no idea that was a benefit beforehand."More (LTE) bars" is a huge selling point for a new phone. If Qualcomm started advertising that more prominantly than absurd peak bandwidth numbers, I think it would move a lot more chips...
ksec - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
Interesting thought. I am starting to wonder if Qualcomm could do something like Qualcomm inside like Intel inside campaign.I dont know any average consumers cares much about the CPU speed, all they know is newer and faster. But literally every consumers cares about their reception. If Qualcomm can try to sell that with an All in One Package from Modem to RF Filters they could win lots more consumer mind set.
FreckledTrout - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
It used to matter. I think at some point call quality and data speed in less than ideal areas will become more compelling again. Especially as smart phones start to become more of commodity items like the dumb phones where in the past.NICOXIS - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
I'd rather have this than 5GYojimbo - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
It's well known that if you ask them, people would rather have some slight improvement in what they already know than a true innovation because people can definitively see how the improvement can help them but they cannot see the possibilities opened up by the substantial change.[email protected] - Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - link
So this advancement will give better signal quality, and lower latency on the edges of coverage? Better signal quality, further out of range, is a good thing, no matter who makes the modem. Apple bought intels division, for a reason, so they won’t have to run to Qualcomm. The problem, though, is intel gave up, because they couldn’t compete with Qualcomm’s solutions. Apple may have a bought a brick, just like google did, buying htc’s phone dev team. Nothing really great is coming from Google’s acquisition, and it shows in sales of current pixels. Apple will use Qualcomm’s modems, til they can catch up to Qualcomm, in performance from the division they bought from intel.Christian Fitchett - Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - link
Really cool article!