iPhone, and implicitly the customers of the Apple company, are the victims of a very important war that the Apple company is currently waging with another American giant. More precisely, we are talking about the war between Apple and Qualcomm, which is far from over, which leaves the iPhone without high-performance modems, and could even keep 5G technology away from Apple's phones.
The war between Apple and Qualcomm is far from over, the presidents of the two companies meeting at the end of last year in the Cupertino headquarters, but without any chance to solve the problems. Although the presidents of both companies were present at the meeting, the one from Qualcomm did not participate much in the discussions, leaving his lawyer to carry out the negotiations.
Tim Cook and the CEO of Qualcomm do not even have a friendly relationship, and the latter believes that Apple would have supported an attempt by Broadcom to buy Qualcomm, unsuccessful of course. Considering the distant relationship between the two presidents, Apple executives believe that reaching an agreement between the two companies is impossible at the moment.
Mr. Mollenkopf, who suspected Apple of supporting a hostile takeover of his company, initially did not speak, leaving his general counsel to start talking, according to people familiar with the meeting. The awkwardness punctuated a distant relationship between the chief executives that has turned their companies' conflict into one of the ugliest corporate battles in history.
Unfortunately for all of us, this means that iPhones will not benefit from the latest and greatest telecommunications technologies in the coming year. Apple does not have a problem with this situation, leaving its customers without the newest innovations since two years ago, and if the situation continues, Americans will find ways to make things look less bad than they are.
