Elon Musk Battled Apple Over Satellite Features

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been embroiled successful a conflict with Apple implicit its outer connectivity features, according to The Information.


The study claims erstwhile SpaceX CEO Elon Musk heard that Apple was readying to denote a outer connectivity diagnostic for the iPhone 14 successful concern with Globalstar, helium approached the institution with an offer. He projected that SpaceX would exclusively supply outer connectivity to iPhones for 18 months, for an upfront outgo of $5 billion. After that, Apple would wage SpaceX $1 cardinal per twelvemonth for Starlink service.

Musk threatened that if Apple did not hold to a woody with SpaceX wrong 72 hours, helium would denote a akin outer diagnostic connected his ain that could enactment with iPhones. Apple rejected the proposal, and 2 weeks earlier the ‌iPhone‌ 14 was announced SpaceX revealed a concern with T-Mobile that allowed smartphone users to nonstop and person substance messages successful areas with nary reception utilizing Starlink.

SpaceX has besides filed ineligible challenges to Globalstar's usage of the vigor spectrum it has licensed, which could cripple the ‌iPhone‌'s outer work if they succeed. As portion of this litigation, SpaceX challenged Globalstar's exertion to motorboat caller satellites successful 2023, accusing the outer institution of underutilizing the spectrum it already possessed. SpaceX accused the institution of trying to artifact contention by hogging spectrum for itself.

SpaceX besides named Apple successful the regulatory filings, which seemingly irked Apple executives who wanted to support their region from the conflict. Moreover, Apple employees are said to judge that Musk's adjacent narration with the Trump medication could springiness him an vantage implicit Apple and others with the FCC.

More recently, Apple and SpaceX person clashed implicit however acold Apple would enactment SpaceX's concern with T-Mobile. Over the past year, Musk asked Apple to enactment the T-Mobile outer diagnostic crossed a wide scope of its ‌iPhone‌ models, which would assistance maximize the imaginable marketplace for the service, but Apple was reluctant to enactment the work connected models older than the ‌iPhone‌ 14, which frustrated Musk.

The bid of outer connectivity spats added to animosity betwixt Musk and Apple, who person besides grappled with disagreements implicit App Store fees. In caller years, Musk has plotted the thought of gathering his ain telephone to get astir Apple's "gatekeeper" presumption successful the market. Musk has reportedly discussed Tesla gathering the telephone and outer connectivity being provided by Starlink.
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