countless number of chips, no significant improvements over the generations and expensive af
and since Apple M1 came out 2 years ago, they are still unable to offer equivalent
and since Apple M1 came out 2 years ago, they are still unable to offer equivalent
The fact that they can't keep up with their big competitor doesn't seem like evidence that they deliberately want things to stagnate.
IIRC Apple is an architectural licensee but Qualcomm is not (though they were ~6 years ago). Back in the day, Qualcomm's designs were probably more competitive than the reference ones are today.
Disclosure: I'm a Qualcomm employee.
To be fair, only Apple could pay more cost for chip.