You all should've seen this day would come sooner or later.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-lte-modems-upcoming-iphones-180006810.html
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There's enough people who think its important to project success with unnecessary luxuries. So BMW sales and iPhone sales will be fine. Sets a robust floor on the "good enough" theory, at least for Apple and BMW.
135904 - You're exactly right. Here's the thing, at some point, other than the brand (so-called status symbol) people are going to ask themselves what exactly that extra $300-400 that they're paying for a Samsung 6/IPhone get them over the so-called low-end like OnePlus 2 or Alcatel Idol 3.
OP - welcome to 3 days ago
In the 70's a "pet rock" was good enough. Making cats and dogs irrelevant. But they came back strong thanks to innovations in purse dogs and French bulldogs. So now we just need to make the "pet drone" a viable $30 billion business
Now is an era of good enough
A normal user cant differentiate between low tier moto g vs high end s6
This is true at least for android phones
The long and short of this is that Q's business is deteriorating. The company is on the path to irrelevancy, unless it some how can right the ship and re-invent itself. Losing businesses to a competitors is not unexpected in the free market. However, you can't stay in business if you keep losing key customers without being able to replace the loss revenues with something else. This is where I find it troubling. Looks like after Dr. Jacobs, the talent and leadership levels really dropped off. In his place is just a bunch of money-grabbing "white-collar welfare" cronies that lived off of the company's fruit of past success.
Anonymous135865 - And I assume that during that time Q develop new product that will replace the $1 billion business (and it will get worse as Intc finally figured this mobile business out) that's going to intc? In a few more years, Q will be wishing that its chips can compete in the low cost models let alone the high-end. The writing is on the walls, Q's market share has been shrinking and will continue to be so for many years to come.
the effect is unknown -- whether high tier chipset prices will come down a little or a lot. whether INTC can creep upwards into that slot for other models down the road. No supplier is secure with FruitCo. Curious if FruitCo is going to unveil their own RF front end for low tier models.
Of course, low tier FruitCo is still $400 phone retail (probably bought from Foxconn for $99.99 !!!)
OP - You sound like an 80's doufus. "Intel is in the house"....LOL
Yawn. This was like old news. It's not the 100% of the SOC, just the low tier/cost models....This was already known.