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Re:Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part by mcculley on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:01PM (#15403372)
I get that. I was wondering why Dell ships laptops with an LTE modem and Apple ships every mobile device except a MacBook with an LTE modem. It makes sense if it is some stupid negotiation tactic. I was wondering why they would not put something in so obvious to the benefit of users.
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Re:Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part by pwinnski on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:10PM (#15403485)
I think the key there is that Dell ships with an LTE modem, a separate device with a separate price. They pay royalties to Qualcomm on the price of the modem.

Apple would never (for some value of never) ship a laptop with an external device like that. The LTE is either baked into the laptop (at which point Qualcomm would demand a % of the entire laptop's sale price), or it's not included at all. They choose not at all.

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Re:Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part by mcculley on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:57PM (#15403969)
Dell, HP, and Lenovo ship laptops with a built-in LTE modem.
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Re:Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part by wernercd on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:37PM (#15404383)
"Built in" as soldered unto the mother boards? Or "Build in" as in an expansion card added to an expansion card slot (even if "internally")?

I assume the difference between those two would be the difference between price?

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Re:Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part by mcculley on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @09:47PM (#15406224)
I have no idea. I would only care how well integrated it is with the operating system. But yes, maybe this is some hardware designed against accounting constraints.
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Re:Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part by greglindahl on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:53PM (#15404538)
I haven't looked in a recent laptop, but a while ago there was a standard for a single interior expansion card.
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