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"Spectacular failure" is a bit hyperbolic to me. They are taking steps to move away from Qualcomm, and it seems their first real go at it resulted in a lackluster product. It's not like Apple actually shipped their phones with that lackluster chip, they decided "hey, didn't work out this go-around". I'm sure they'll get there in another year or so.

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> I'm sure they'll get there in another year or so.

Unlikely, if you read the article.

>The company scratched plans to use it in Apple’s 2023 models, and the planned rollout was moved to 2024. Eventually, Apple executives realized the company wouldn’t meet that goal either. Apple instead opened negotiations with Qualcomm to continue supplying the modem chips. Apple’s licensing deal with Qualcomm expires in April 2025, though it can be extended for another two years.

Okay, so 2-4 years?

2-4 years on top of 4 years, plus many years before the business was acquired from Intel, which never managed to ship anything better than a noticeably worse 4G modem.

I think that counts as a pretty big failure.

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