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beowulfschmidt said:

neoncat said:

if apple can produce these for less, then hopefully they can charge less. it would be nice to see the option for cellular drop from about $130 to maybe $50.

On what planet is Apple—king of the upsell and margins so fluffy and plush it'd make a down jacket blush—going to pass along even a nickel of cost savings? Are you completely out of your mind? 

This.  In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple were to charge more for it's own modems.  Because obviously an Apple modem would be superior to Qualcomm's in every way, right?

As for comments about it taking so long, Apple does not want to pay anyone else licensing fees if it can avoid doing so, which means not using anyone else's patented technology, or buying those patents outright (or, cynically, using them anyway and hope they're invalidated).  All that research takes time, and engineering a new modem to not infringe on existing patents is no small task.

I don’t believe Apple would be superior in every way, unless you’re being sarcastic there. All modem makers pay other companies license fees for patents. Nobody has an exclusive on FRAND patents, or other useful, but not required patents. The biggest holders are Qualcomm, then Huawei. But there are others. Apple bought a large number and has developed others. From what I understand about their efforts, they’re very involved about future cell technologies such as 6. If so, maybe they believe that they can get ahead in some of that and be more ready to have a seat at the table. But for now, they’re very involved certainly would have to license more that a few. I’ve read that there are well over 100,000 working cert patents out there, possibly twice as many and they’re usually licensed out in tranches.

bobolicious said:

"Users have ultimate control."

Do all roads still lead to iCloud and Apple servers ?

Will ChatGP ultimately end up being 'Sherlocked'...?

I hate that term, “sherlocked”. Apple comes out with software for System 9, then OS X can’t use it and Apple is taking time to get it working there. A third party developer comes out with an app called Watson, to mimic Apple’s old Sherlock. Apple finally comes out with a version that works on OS X and immediately some people yell that Apple “Sherlocked” him. I always thought that was nuts.

Kierkegaarden said:

I don’t know how accurate this assessment is.  First off, Sorkin is no fan of Trump.  And what was the political affiliation of the CEOs that supposedly were “less predisposed” (whatever that means) after the meeting?

The reports coming out of the meeting were that not only did he meander, but that a lot made no sense, was contradictory, and that he seemed to lose his place.

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Trump winning its a given at this point.

The world needs it.

Fortunately no. The world needs for him to be put in a home.

Well, this is interesting. A fairly high end Pro solution. I’m honestly surprised this is out so soon. But it’s a good indication that Blackmagic expects the market to grow quickly.