Realllly? you realize 2011 was when Steve Jobs was there? Even knowing Apple still hasn't adopted basic things like NFC/Wireless charging on the iPhone, or finally brought "water resistant" iphone in 2016 when the Galaxy S5 had it years ago? Or take a look at the Mac lineup, no 32 GB Ram, less batter life, year old processors that MBP owners had to wait for (while Kaby lake will be rolling out over the next couple of months) while charging a ridiculous amount because of some gimmicky "touchbar" when there's a bunch of laptops these days that have touch screens.
Fact is, the current Apple under Tim Cook, cares about one thing, and that's their wallet, they care more about margins than actually giving us a good product, if they can charge $1,000 for an iPhone and put a cheaper bluetooth chipset in there, they will... and claim things like "battery life" or that "apple users don't want that", or "courage".
I'm 99.99999% sure that Apple won't have bluetooth 5 in the next iPhone, but rather wait to upgrade it for the "s" version the following year at the EARLIEST... might even wait longer.
You seem to be extremely ignorant regarding several matters you touched on...
First, Apple using USI Semiconductor's (a partner Apple works closely with on Bluetooth development) Bluetooth 5.0 module will be
at no additional cost, and no doubt will cost
less due to economies in USI taking advantage of reduced semiconductor node geometries.
Second, Bluetooth is a strategic technology key to the success of Apple devices and how they interact with each other, such as iPhone, Watch, iPad, wireless headphones, mice, keyboards, trackpads, etc. That's why Apple is a promoter member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. And thus Apple is a major driver in defining Bluetooth specifications for the industry. It is in Apple's self-interest to use the latest Bluetooth technology they had an active role in specifying and developing, as quickly a possible - before other competitors. Indeed, the iPhone 6 released in 2014 under Tim Cook, supported Bluetooth 4.2, several months before the specification was generally available. Using the latest Bluetooth technology is key to Apple's product development plans. That's why the iPhone 4s, also released under Tim Cook employed Bluetooth 4.0, a newly developed specification.
Jobs was "there," gravely ill, briefly in early 2011 after returning from a medical leave 1 1/2 years earlier in 2009 for a liver transplant, with Cook in charge. With Jobs terminally ill, Tim Cook officially became CEO, hand-picked by Jobs a month or so before he died.
The subject of this post is about Bluetooth 5. Trying to obfuscate Apple's role in developing and implementing Bluetooth with other things you're not happy about is telling and makes zero sense.
Your nonsense about not bringing BT 5 in upcoming devices due to margins and Apple being cheap is laughable as there will be zero adverse margin impact as I pointed out above. And, as I said above, it's in Apple's self-interest to quickly deploy the technology they had a major hand in specifying and developing.
If deploying advanced technologies in Apple products were about margins and being cheap, Apple would hold back development on their Ax processors (development which is indeed very costly) that routinely trounce all smartphone competitors. Instead, Apple continues to update their Ax processors every year with amazing increases in performance, year after year.
I could go on and on, but I'll speak to other technologies Apple recently introduced in products that are at odds with reducing margins in my next post.
