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Apple is a company that loves doing everything themselves. The iPhone is a perfect example of that, where it not only runs software made by Apple, but there are also components inside the iPhone that have been designed by Apple as well. This is why many are suggesting that Apple could be interesting in snapping up Broadcom’s RF wireless chip business.

A report from The Wall Street Journal (paywall) has revealed that Broadcom is apparently looking to sell off its RF wireless chip business, and while there was no mention of who could be interested, many have pointed out that Apple could be a likely candidate. Broadcom already supplies many RF chips for smartphones, so it would make sense that Apple might be interested in acquiring them and their tech, especially given that they have been supplying to Apple for years.

Such an acquisition would no doubt help Apple further customize its iPhone to its own specifications, where they can create devices with unique and potentially better capabilities as opposed to simply sourcing from outside. It would also give them more control over what their products can do.

Such behavior isn’t entirely without merit either as earlier this year, Apple announced that they would be acquiring Intel’s modem business where it was speculated that it could help the company further the development of their own in-house 5G modems.

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When it comes to virtual assistants, depending on the phone and platform you use, you could be using any number of virtual assistants ranging from Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and so on. But if there was a “world’s biggest” title when it comes to digital assistants, would Siri necessarily be a name that comes to mind?

Apparently that is the case, according to market research firm Futuresource, where they claim that Siri is the world’s biggest virtual assistant where it commands a 35% share of the global virtual assistant market. As iMore points out, this sort of makes sense when you consider the fact that Siri is shipped on pretty much every Apple product.

This includes devices like the iPhone, iPad, the Apple Watch, the HomePod, and every Mac computer. Also, based on that logic, it doesn’t really come as a surprise to learn that Microsoft’s Cortana comes in second place with a 22% market share due to the sheer number of Windows computers there are in the market today.

If accurate, it’s actually interesting to see that Siri is leading the way. We would have easily assumed that Google Assistant might be in the lead due to Android being the dominant platform when it comes to smartphones, but it looks like we would have been wrong.

Siri Is Apparently The ‘World’s Biggest’ Virtual Assistant , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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