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Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports (www.sfgate.com)

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Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports::Apple’s “spectacular failure” to build a modem chip for its new iPhones was the topic of a Wall Street Journal expose Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder what the takeaway was? They successfully designed processors with the m1 & bionic chips, so super curious what blocked them here. Are modems harder to design than processors? Maybe it’s the RF part?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If someone patents the wheel, it's very hard to make a car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I heard somewhere they ran into tons of patent issues