It’s strange seeing “kills” and “Android” in the same sentence without any mention of “Google”.
Android makers apparently have expressed an preference to use “standards-based solutions” rather than Qualcomm’s proprietary solution.
So Verizon got burned by Qualcomm’s CDMA patents once too many.
Huh, that was quick. Seems like manufacturers weren’t cooperating, and then T-Mobile announced the Starlink partnership. Maybe they realized they just couldn’t compete with that, so they pulled the plug.
Oh well, I for one was nervous about another Qualcomm proprietary thing becoming the standard; we’ve had quite enough of their anti-competitive bullshit recently. As evidenced by Apple absolutely spanking Qualcomm with their A-series chips’ power efficiency for several years now. Embarassing time to be an Android fanboy.
Qualcomm makes chips and Android is an operating system, dude. I don’t know any Qualcomm fanboys
Right, and they’ve had a near monopoly on US Android phones for like two decades now. In processors and modems. They’ve gotten fucking lazy, and they’re holding Android back.
I still don’t get your comment about it being embarrassing to be an android fanboy
Cuz iPhone processors are objectively better? That wasn’t the case a decade ago.
Why would that be an embarrassing thing though? Android users like the OS, not the chips they run on lol
Yes, and my argument is that the lack of chipset diversity is holding the platform back. More recently, Google’s doing interesting stuff with Tensor and Mediatek apparently made some decent SoC’s. But Qualcomm still has way too much of the (US) market.
MediaTek, Samsung, Nvidia and now Google make ARM chips. Android has tried x86. And has recently added support for RISC-V.
Diversity is not the problem. Honestly there is no problem. Apple just makes damn good chips. 🤷
That’s patently false. Ever since Apple introduced their own silicon (A4 released in 2010), they’ve generally had the best performance of any ARM chip. It’s not that the competition is bad, it’s just Apple has historically been excellent at recruiting top engineers and executing their products. For example, in the Intel-era, there were multiple years publications said the best Windows laptop was a Mac.
Patiently false? LMAO. I said a decade offhand but to be more exact it’s thirteen years. Thank you, Captain Pedant. 🙄
No, to be more exact, it’s 14 years (you have to go back one more year).
Must not have seen Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 then. iOS is still years behind in software, and it’s not even a competition. https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-8-gen-3-vs-apple-a17-pro-3383666/
