Tim Cook said the thing about C1 that Apple wouldn’t say before

Apple’s C1 modem launched this year in the iPhone 16e, but without much company fanfare. But Tim Cook just expressed C1’s strengths in a way that Apple—for good reason—shied away from previously.

C1’s strengths intentionally under-marketed by Apple

When Apple launched C1, it was the culmination of many years of effort. But unlike lots of the company’s other innovations, Apple had to be careful not to tout C1’s benefits too highly.

Why? Because Qualcomm’s competing…