How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless

The Phi hopes to do for radio what Apple I did for computing—spark innovation.

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[daemonios]

This has to be one of the most interesting pieces I've read in Ars recently. Very promising tech. That said, I hope they can work out the interference/spectrum allocation issues. And implement this as a low-power SoC - imagine phones that can be upgraded to the next cell spec (5G?) through software! Although I can hardly imagine phone manufacturers thinking very highly of this - after all, that would undermine the incentive to move from a 4G to a 5G phone

 

[daemonios]

So here's what I got from this article:

"Apple... apple. Apple apple: Apple! Apple? A-p-p-l-e. (Phi)."


Sorry, it's a fascinating subject ruined by hugely out of place fanboyism.

You must not have read the same article as me. While I don't particularly like Apple, and while I think mentioning it as the largest company in the world is highly debatable and depends on you choice of metric, I can't understand how this thread became about that instead of the exciting tech reported on. The comparison with Apple is an insignificant part of the article. Someone's got a really sensitive Apple nerve... in fact, several people do, apparently.