Why Apple is in no rush for 5G

[DelJo63]

Macworld.com is critical of Verizon 5G:

There’s just one problem. Well, actually there are several problems, but the main one is that mmWave 5G is extremely limited. The only place I was guaranteed to get coverage was when I was standing right under the node, and even then I had to wait for the gigantic 5G logo to appear in the status bar. If I took too many steps, rounded a corner, or even turned my back on the node, I lost 5G coverage. And that's the only 5G that Verizon is selling.

That’s not the kind of experience Apple is going to sell. And since I don’t think Apple would make a separate version of the iPhone just for 5G, a 5G iPhone would be selling a promise of a super-fast network, not an actual one. Apple rarely sells products that aren’t ready to use out of the box, and 5G is most certainly not.​

 

[TheDevopsGuy]

Well said. In my country we don't even have a single 5G node yet people purchase the 5G phones. It's still a premature technology and it will only be worth investing in modems capable for 5G when the technology is well adapted.

 

[TheDevopsGuy]

Companies be like: Here's a 5G phone with these amazing speeds look!

Us:Buys phone with next to no support for 5G.

By the time 5G is well adapted most will probably be looking for a new phone...

Which means the company legit managed to manipulate a person to spend 100$ more on a feature you won't be using most of the time if ever at all.