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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:51AM (2 children)
and you are being a douche.
I guess all the iphones before 7 have been destroyed? Especially in god damn Puerto Rico, where i bet all the people just junk their iphones immediately when a new crapapple is released.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Sunday October 01 2017, @08:47PM (1 child)
Ajit Pai isn't doing shit on this issue, just making noise:
FCC chief wants smartphones’ hidden FM radios turned on, but won’t do anything about it [theverge.com] (February 16, 2017)
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday October 01 2017, @11:15PM
If you have a regulation you want, number one, we’re not gonna approve it because it’s already been approved probably in 17 different forms. But if we do, the only way you have a chance is we have to knock out two regulations for every new regulation. So if there’s a new regulation, they have to knock out two. We’re cutting regulations massively for small business and for large business. 🇺🇸