In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:


Yet another news item, this time with Apple spin:


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...jectid=1187378
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or http://tinyurl.com/ybmlr6w8

"Until Intel is able to offer its chips with matching features,
Apple won't enable some of capabilities of the phones running with
Qualcomm modems, ...".

Cutting off its nose to spite its face?

not at all, and how is that an apple spin? looks anti-apple to me.

You didn't read the article.

yes i did.

it's yet another content-free article designed to get clicks.

Content free? You read it with your eyes closed.

nope

although 1 gigabit cellular networks are expected to appear, they're
going to be *very* rare. i know of only a couple of cities in the usa
where they'll be deployed by years end.

even in those areas, almost nobody will get anywhere close to that
speed, and if they do, it's nothing they'll ever notice since most
content is bandwidth limited in other ways.

Correct.

in other words, it didn't say much of anything.

matching performance and/or features of components from different
vendors across a product line is standard practice. that article is
trying to make it appear that only apple intentionally gimps
components. they aren't.

They are pruning Qualcom modems to the level of the lowest.

nope.

the article *claims* that apple *might* do that, *if* the intel chips
don't perform as well as qualcomm.

it's all wild guessing, based on rumours.

nobody outside of apple and most of those within apple have no idea
what the next iphone will be like.

it's a bull**** article, designed to get clicks. nothing more.