[nerdjon]

I agree with where you are going with that, but the person I responded too mentioned that they could buy a part part of qualcom but instead just made their own.

But instead they bought part of intel. It doesn't diminish what Apple is building, but I think given the context it is important.

[bombcar]

I was more emphasizing that if Apple was willing to "go it alone" on their CPUs (which they did by an acquisition, to be sure) then they probably have no issue at all "going alone" on the radio/modem, and I'm actually a bit surprised they didn't do that first - I guess modems are more complicated/difficult than CPUs.