This week, we go inside Apple’s quest to replace every major part of the iPhone with an in-house design. Also: The company is finally embracing the RCS texting standard; Apple’s revenue share from the Google search deal is revealed in court; and one of its health executives heads to Oura.
The problem with the cellular modem is that Apple has to hit a moving target. Qualcomm has had significant performance increases in their last few modem releases. Apple needs to be at least almost as good as Qualcomm’s modem in any given year and Qualcomm keeps hitting big performance jumps.