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A comment on How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel. Parent comment

Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by DannyBee on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:35PM (#16267132)
"Right now Apple is several years ahead of other high end phone manufacturers in CPUs. If they cripple Qualcomm's high end modem business by taking most of it away from them, they could extend the same lead to modems."

Err, certainly this would just result in vertical integration (IE one of these companies buying Qualcomm), or any other situations, rather than "everyone sucks except for Apple" as you posit

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Re:How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm an... by stcredzero on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:01PM (#16267373)
Err, certainly this would just result in vertical integration (IE one of these companies buying Qualcomm), or any other situations, rather than "everyone sucks except for Apple" as you posit

Or, it could result in vertical integration and "everyone sucks except for Apple."

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