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Originally Posted by atoy74
Look, it's part of the chipset, why shouldn't it be enabled? Consider an engine manufacturer made their engine with a supercharger and most people knew that to be "part of the system." Shouldn't the car manufacturer that is using that engine be clear that they've disabled the supercharger?
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It's all about consolidate and cross-platform development. The chipset is an enabler and cost saver.
QualComm puts out a chipset that ALLOWS the customer-manufacturer to offer different features to their end-users. Just because this chipset may have WiFi capabilities, in no way obligates the phone maker to add the other hardware/software (ie antenna) to enable this functionallity.
This same practice has long been done in every other industry.
And for those of you using the car/engine example, would it be fair to say that when you buy a cheap chevy sedan it should perform on par with a vette just because they may use the same block?
And how do you justify the premium of a Rolex?