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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 30 2017, @11:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-not-holding-it-right dept.

Apple would like to remind the FCC that it can't activate imaginary FM radios that iPhones don't have

Apple responded today to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who issued a statement that "urged" Apple to activate the FM chips that he claimed are in iPhones in the name of public safety. The recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria were the hook for the reasoning. The only problem? Apple hasn't even included FM radio chips in iPhones since the iPhone 6s.

That's right, Pai called on Apple to activate radios that don't even exist.

As John Gruber astutely points out, the statement has the stink of trying to shift blame or attention off of the FCC's own response and readiness issues. Pai has been banging the drum for months now and it's been a talking point of the NAB for years. When ostensibly asked for comment by Bloomberg, National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton said "The notion that Apple or anyone else would block this type of information is something that we find fairly troubling." Again, the radios do not exist in iPhones and haven't for over a year now.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:08AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:08AM (#575436)

    Many of the iPhones do have FM radio chips TFS last sentence says so.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:28AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:28AM (#575439)

    The "source" is John Gruber, of course he's going to lie to defend the Cult of Apple.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:59AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:59AM (#575443)

      Every single chipset with a qualcomm chip set in it has an FM radio. None of the ones sold in the US have the antenna pin soldered on. All of the US carriers deemed it to be that way. The OEMs want to sell phones through the carriers do what the carriers tell them to. Most of the ones sold in the rest of the world do.

      So even if Apple could 'flip a switch' and turn it on. It would not work.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:26AM (#575454)

        Every single chipset with a qualcomm chip set in it has an FM radio.
        None of the ones sold in the US have the antenna pin soldered on.

        Every BlackBerry 10 device that I owned or used had FM radio, all
        purchased for and in the US.

        All of the US carriers deemed it to be that way. The OEMs
          want to sell phones through the carriers do what the carriers tell them
          to.

        Ah, yes. Nevermind.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:41AM (1 child)

        by frojack (1554) on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:41AM (#575463) Journal

        The carriers couldn't care less about FM. Apple had iTunes and you need look no further for the reason why FM was not welcome on the iPhone. Android really didn't have a good paid music service at first so they just threw in the FM radio app.

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        No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
        • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:50AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:50AM (#575465)

          And all the android phones? Those have iTunes also right?