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> The usefulness for mobile applications came later.

True, but not quite the whole story.

Some enterprising engineers wrote a cellular protocol stack in ARM assembly language that let everybody use a far cheaper core than anything else.

Very quickly, ARM became entrenched in the feature phones. Then, the evolution occurred to smartphones, and ARM was already in the phone.



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