Apple tends to over-build their chips. For example, they’re running iOS on their displays, just because that’s what their engineers are used to. This means that the display needs a full blown desktop-class computer in there just for showing an image on the screen. It’s the same story for their wireless routers.
That works fine in environments where power and heat don’t really matter, but that’s completely not the case for a modem.
Apple tends to over-build their chips. For example, they’re running iOS on their displays, just because that’s what their engineers are used to. This means that the display needs a full blown desktop-class computer in there just for showing an image on the screen. It’s the same story for their wireless routers.
That works fine in environments where power and heat don’t really matter, but that’s completely not the case for a modem.