Even by 2020, Apple may still have trouble getting enough 5G modems for iPhones.

Already practically a consensus amid preliminary information about the 2019 iPhones that we will have no model with technology 5G. As at the time of the transition from 3G to 4G, Apple has no interest in running with something that is not yet widely disseminated and whose technology is in the process of maturing.

The idea that the first 5G iPhones will be released in 2020, ie in just a year and a half. And look at this: even so, analysts consulted by Bloomberg Apple believes they face problems getting enough modems.

The point, of course, is that it is unlikely to come to any agreement with Qualcomm (its current biggest rival in courts around the world) and it should not appeal to its competitor Samsung for that, leaving Intel only as a major supplier of the component and still with a technology clearly lagging behind Qualcomm. MediaTek a very distant option, Huawei even worse.

No wonder Apple is developing a 5G modem of its own in the Cupertino labs, but they will hardly be ready by 2021.

When it comes to the rollout of new technologies on iPhones, Apple's biggest stumbling block is precisely why its competitors are most jealous: sales volume. While Xiaomi celebrates 1 million units sold in the first month of Redmi Note 7, for example, Apple in its last fiscal quarter (considered a "failure" in iPhone sales) sold 1 million handsets every day and a half.

That is, by 2020 or Apple will have to appeal to Qualcomm and / or Samsung, or finalize their own project long before the expected, or perhaps limit 5G technology to a specific high-end model of iPhones (instead put it across the board) or, ultimately, postpone the implementation of the technology until 2021. Time will tell.