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Wait, if Apple is able to pull off their own cellular modem chip, they might put it into a Mac as well? That would be sick.
it would, but I don't know if they would do that.
It would be a fair bit of overhead for a function many would not use, and cellular tech makes more sense in a phone, because people are more likely to have that with them than a laptop.
They could have it as an option, but then it would further fragment their laptop line.
Personally, I wouldn't do it if I was them. Almost everyone has a phone, and the network connection can be shared, it's really not a hassle.
As someone who works in IT an always online MacBook is nice. As it is it causes a few problems when you can’t connect a not signed in MacBook to a new wifi network. Makes find my obsolete for laptops unless the person who finds/steals it goes to wipe it and signs into wifi on the recovery screen. For support this has other implications because it means we have to physically have the machine or tell a user our admin account password if they get locked out in a place they've never been. There are plenty of other implications this has but for business users on the move it would make my job easier.