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Apple thinks every piece of hardware older than 2 years is imaginary. They wish. ...Typed from a 10 year old MBP running linux - FU Apple
by tomxor 9y ago
Apple thinks every piece of hardware older than 2 years is imaginary. They wish.
...Typed from a 10 year old MBP running linux - FU Apple
- Retric 9y agoNo 4 year old iPhone could physically be used as an FM Radio. The only thing that changed in the last 2 years was removing chip logic that had never been connected to a radio making it pointless.
- joncampbelldev 9y agoWell I'm sure Apple would love to hear your ideas for remotely activating to unconnected FM chip inside the older iPhones
- tomxor 9y agoUnconnected? these parts are all on a single IC these days, "connecting" is almost always a matter of firmware... you think they would have bothered including a physically separate device that they intended to not use? the reason old models had FM is because it's all on one chip based on someone else's design that is difficult to modify, unwanted features aren't worth removing on that scale.
- chrisbennet 9y agoYou can't add a non-existent antenna in firmware.
- tomxor 9y agoSeriously? I did not know that... so they didn't just drop that pin to the headphones just in-case? what bunch of dicks. So lets see the full Apple response is really: "We finally rid the radio of that extra FM functionality in our last two phones, and we intentionally made it physically impossible to use in older phones because we have vested interests against FM radio even though it's a potentially life saving form of communication." And you are defending these people why.
- chrisbennet 9y agoI didn't defend them, I just explained why they couldn't do what you suggested (reconnect the radio with a firmware change). If you want to get angry, ponder why they took away my beloved headphone jack. :-(
- tomxor 9y agoApple people always downvote... bunch of sheep trolls.
- mcphage 9y agoYou say stupid shit, you get downvoted. That’s not even Apple, that’s just basic internet.
- tomxor 9y agoI said something that is observably true... that Apple like to pretend to everyone that hardware older than two years is obsolete. That attracts a certain class of Apple user that don't like anyone bad mouthing their anointed one, for any reason, so dowvotes happen. By all means show evidence to the contrary, alternatively, if you happen to be a part of "that class" of Apple user (you know, the kind to pitch a tent outside the Apple store kind, willing to trade body parts for shiny squares) then just leave some downvotes and i'll know. But you know what... you're right, that is basic internet, there are just to many of these people. Perhaps once Apple completes it's cycle and returns to the fragmented market milking monstrosity it was in the 90s this will all be over and the cult will shrink back to a more manageable size.