So it sounds like this comes down to vendors competing [...] I guess this is similar to Nvidia vs AMD (vs Intel I suppose) [...]
Yes, exactly. Sometimes just seeing how something is organized, or the API can give significant clues to how it is done. It is much harder to start from scratch.
Do we have any alternatives? Are there any completely open radio chips in development?
See my parent post. First you need a few billion dollars to buy some spectrum.
> See my parent post. First you need a few billion dollars to buy some spectrum.
So that's the tragedy of the mobile computing revolution isn't it then? That communication tech is technically a free market but realistically is controlled by very few corporations with very deep pockets. I did not realize that this is how it was set up and now I am sad.
Yes, exactly. Sometimes just seeing how something is organized, or the API can give significant clues to how it is done. It is much harder to start from scratch.
Do we have any alternatives? Are there any completely open radio chips in development?
See my parent post. First you need a few billion dollars to buy some spectrum.