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Originally Posted by quagmire
Apple put LTE in the iPhone about 1 year after everyone else did. That is because at the time, the only way the Android phone makers were implementing LTE was with two radios. One for 3G for backward compatibility and voice calls and another radio for LTE. That compromise resulted in piss poor battery life if you turned on LTE as two radios were turned on. Apple waited until Qualcomm came out with one radio that had 3G and LTE on it.
Apple was not willing to go with that compromise at the time especially since LTE wasn't widely available yet.
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Or they just wanted to make the consumer buy the same phone a year later but with LTE.