This opinion piece doesn't jive with reality. For one, 5G networks across the US are rolling out rather quickly, and Apple will want to be the first to offer a phone with consistent 5G compatibility and better battery life than other phones. They own what used to be Intel's 5G client group.
CEO of iPhone chipmaker Broadcom Inc. — answered a question on near-term trends for 5G on a call with the investors by saying, “To be honest about this, we don’t know how fast the ramp on 5G will occur.” It’s pretty telling when the leader of one of Apple’s largest wireless chip suppliers seems hesitant to extol the promise of his industry’s most-talked-about growth driver.
That's because Broadcom has no idea how much longer they're going to be relevant to Apple. Apple will eventually have their own 5G modems in phones, tablets, and laptops that are designed entirely in-house and fabbed by TSMC. Broadcom has no way of competing with that.
Even if 5G network coverage was amazing, there is another problem. Almost all the most-used mobile apps, including TikTok, Instagram and FaceTime, work fine on 4G networks.
There simply isn’t a need for 5G right now. Yes, there will be new killer apps someday that will require faster speeds, but they haven’t arrived yet.
There might not be a need for common social media apps, but everything else, like iCloud sync? Airdrop is nice, but it has limited range and transfer speed, and you could be in a congested area full of 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks.
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