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Apple Plans to Equip MacBooks With In-House Cellular Modems (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Avieshek@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] throwmeaway1784@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apple eventually plans to build its own custom modem into cellular MacBook models that could arrive in 2028 at the earliest, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

At least 5 more years until cellular on the Mac? Please just put a damn Qualcomm chip in there until the in-house ones are ready, charge a ridiculous price for it if necessary. I hate having to drain my phone’s battery (or my MacBook’s to keep my phone powered) with a hotspot whenever I don’t have access to wifi

[–] joeyat@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

They are probably adding the modems on die.... so A20 and M5 or whatever will have those components in the package.. so they might has well enable them across the product line. This is why they are pushing for eSIMS.. will save them a lot of components. Would imagine they will also get into the carrier servicing as well. . start charging customers for that as well... cut out all those pesky 3rd parties.