Apple Acquiring the Majority of Intel's Smartphone Modem Business

[JessWinter]

In the US, why do you think few Europeans complain about connectivity, it's the providers, too little coverage.

Read the graphs, prove is there, they are just a tiny bit slower.

TBH I don't think anyone really notices the slowness. It's the reliability that's the issue. Being kicked off your connection multiple times a day/week is not acceptable to most people. But when you have 4 phones and only the Intel modem phones have issues, that's how you know. And yes, we've done testing on this internally where I work.

It sucks, but like I said, Apple might be able to fix the Intel dumpster-fire and set it straight.

 

[DeepIn2U]

The only thing that’s scary about this is the fact that the amount spent on this acquisition was 33.3% of the amount Apple paid to buy a headphone brand years ago. They’ll likely reap many, many times more benefits from the Intel modem division acquisition than they ever will with Beats.

Lol people still on this tip?!

Apple has more than reaped benefits of the Beats acquisition:
Co branding of sister company’s disney Mickey on the Solos for limited edition on the low end to say failure but they can do it.
AirPods!
Powerbeats v2 and now the Pro lineup.
Official headphones for the NBA means exclusive marketing rights leading to sales!
The increase of MacBook sales in education markets linked for pairing Solos for free. Many students will by or replace their failing or working beats with another beats brand.
Wearables has continued to make sales before Apple Watch took off in S2/3
Quality sound in Apple Home I’m sure gained from Beats team engineering but it as a product doesn’t sell very well.

Notice Apple has not sold off the brand and heavily carriers all their products in retail sales?!