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Well I'm sure Apple would love to hear your ideas for remotely activating to unconnected FM chip inside the older iPhones

• tomxor 9y ago
  Unconnected? 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 ago
    You can't add a non-existent antenna in firmware.
    • tomxor 9y ago
      Seriously? 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 ago
        I 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. :-(