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On 8/18/2024 7:48 PM, badgolferman wrote:

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> If I’m paying $1000+ for a premium phone, I want the “best” components in
> it. I don’t care who made them, just that the components are reliable and
> work well.

It's not just the cost of buying modems from Qualcomm, since designing 
and building their own modems is costing them billions that they may 
never recover in savings.

The bigger issue is being able to integrate a modem into their Bionic 
SOC. All the other SOC makers, Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and Huawei, 
have already integrated the modem, even on lower-end SOCs. This saves 
assembly cost and space on the board as well as increasing data transfer 
speeds between the modem and the processor.

-- 
“If you are not an expert on a subject, then your opinions about it 
really do matter less than the opinions of experts. It's not 
indoctrination nor elitism. It's just that you don't know as much as 
they do about the subject.”—Tin Foil Awards