Originally Posted by
ScottC
Of course, the "funny" thing is that Apple claimed last year that there was no chipset out there that could do what they want, but they still went with this fairly old 3G chipset that was around ages before they sold everyone the EDGE iPhone
If I had to make a guess, I'd say Apple initially looked at Qualcomm, but got scared away by the lawsuits or wanted chips when the ITC had banned them.
The Qualcomm stuff is worse at times. I've actually walked away from companies offering me a biz dev role to help sort out their handset positioning, my comment was "you going to hire decent engineers first"