How Apple Failed to Build a Key Part for New iPhones

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Apple wants to cut its ties with chip designer Qualcomm but despite years of work and billions of dollars, the company hasn’t been able to build a wireless chip in-house. WSJ reporter Aaron Tilley joins host Zoe Thomas to explain Apple’s spectacular failure in this effort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, September 25.
0:37.6	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.6	Apple is working on building its own modem chip.
0:43.8	The part that connects iPhones to wireless carriers.
0:47.2	But it has a problem.
0:49.2	The company's design isn't good enough to replace the one it pays chip designer Qualcomm for.
0:55.6	Reporter Aaron Tilly is going to join us to talk about why Apple wants to make its own modem chips.
1:01.2	The length that's gone to.
1:03.0	And how it turned into a spectacular failure.
1:10.8	But starting with Amazon.
1:12.6	The company is facing rising competition from Chinese e-commerce companies Timo and Sheen.
1:18.4	Both rivals have grown massively in the US in recent years.
1:22.2	Attracting inflation-wary customers with lower prices.
1:26.0	Even if they have to wait longer to get their products.
1:29.2	Our reporter Sebastian Herrera has been looking into how Amazon is dealing with the new challengers.
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