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>because they are not going to get clients complaining that the chip is now too expensive

Or rather, that the only clients who will are end-users and not the phone manufacturers (not that those chips aren't dirt cheap for Apple, since the SE turns a profit). Of course, those phone manufacturers will use them anyway and end up charging some absurd price; it kind of makes sense in that light why Android phones have to be so gimmick-heavy since, just like electric cars, the thing that makes them [barely] work is so ludicrously expensive they have to pack in a bunch of extra stuff to disguise that fact.

>Qualcomm seems willing to break Microsoft design for the entire platform with what they delivered

I guess they didn't really want to compete with Wintel after all. Not that that's a successful business model or anything- why bother with that when you can charge phone equipment manufacturers (which, let's be honest, is the only place those CPUs are ending up these days anyway- the embedded things are all run Android to begin with anyways) absurd prices for bottom-tier performance?