it expects 6G to be deployed starting in 2030
Meanwhile, 4G will still be good enough for most people.
Fully immersive VR ? Does that mean that I'll have to work with a bulky headset all day long ?
No thanks.
Apple hasn't put homegrown 5G modems in its iPhones yet, but is already looking for a jump-start on 6G modems. In the past few weeks, the Cupertino technology giant has posted job ads pointedly looking for talent that can put a 6G cellular modem into its product roadmap. The "6G cellular platform architect" roles advertised …
Time moves on, and gradually things take more and more bandwidth for very little reason at all.
A picture saves a thousand words. Which is a fucking waste of bandwidth when all you wanted woz a cheese burger. That four hundred other dickheads wanted to sell you something is neither here nor there.
Never mind 5 and 6G, 4 bars of 4G all of the time would nice before they go flogging the next shiny.
It seems that making a generation work seamlessly everwhere ought to be the aim, rather than making a generation obsolete just to keep the marketing boys happy.
Planning for new, improved generations makes sense but talking about rollout dates before they even know if it is going to work is just hype.
Unless Apple is really expecting to beef up its radio department, this can only be about 5G, or possibly, Wifi 6. 6G is still in the blue sky phase, though like 5G it's likely to be dominated by Asian manufacturers. But even if it were beyond that, work won't start on receivers for a good while yet. But maybe Apple is planning to buy a seat on the various bodies (GSMA, et al.) that will bless 6G when it emerges,
Since they have a 5G modem almost ready (in a year or two) and they're planning to make their own modems moving forwards they need to be current on the budging standards and maybe also involved in the development of them. If they waited until the standards were ready, they would be gravely behind because it takes years to make a modem.
The talk about participating in standards efforts means Apple wants to be in on the ground floor with 6G, rather than chasing the standard like they are with designing their own 5G modem.
The standards process participation will help as well since Apple would stand a better chance of getting some things they have patents on included in the standard, which would put them in a better position as far as negotiating cross license agreements with the big 6G players instead of owing them royalties.
These incremental changes in G are just marketing hype
Revolutionary:
2G - made reliable data connectivity possible.
3G - made some kind of mobile browsing and video feasible
4G - true mobile broadband, comparable to being on a fixed line connection and transition to all IP infrastructure, VoLTE etc begins.
Evolutionary:
5G - faster, but it’s just evolved LTE - nice to have but nothing that changes my world. Improved latency, but that also applies to fully deployed 4G. There were steps along the way.
6G - does anyone really care?!
Agreed, but if there is going to be a "6G" Apple doesn't want to cede the standards setting to others. They'll also have been shipping their own modem for years by the time 6G comes along, so they'll want to get started on including it in advance to avoid others getting ahead of them just in case it turns out someone DOES care about 6G.
Hard to imagine it will matter for phones, but who knows what sort of AR/VR will be coming in a decade.
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