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This might be the worst thing he's done so far, but it's not even the stupidest thing he's done this week. Five days ago he put out a statement congratulating

This might be the worst thing he's done so far, but it's not even the stupidest thing he's done this week. Five days ago he put out a statement congratulating himself for demanding that Tim Cook turn on an imaginary iPhone radio to help the people of Puerto Rico.

acdha 9y ago
That’s less far-fetched than it sounds when you know that the iPhone did have FM tuners in the hardware for every model prior to the iPhone 7, which removed the headphones used as an antenna, and groups like http://freeradioonmyphone.org/ http://freeradioonmyphone.org/ have been trying to get the FCC to mandate opening up hardware access for many years.
- tehwebguy 9y ago
  That entire organization appears to be built on a misconception. This is the most detailed description I can find: > I’ve dug around, and what I’ve been told is that there is an FM radio chip in older iPhones, but it’s not connected, and there’s no antenna designed for FM radio. The chip is just part of a commodity component part, and Apple only connected the parts of the chip that the iPhones were designed to use. No iPhone was ever designed to be an FM radio, and there is no “switch” that can be “flipped” — nor software update that could be issued — that could turn them into one. It’s a complete technical misconception. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/28/fcc-fm-iphones https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/28/fcc-fm-iphones
  - acdha 9y ago
    Yeah, I’m definitely not endorsing them, only noting that this isn’t a new issue Pai came up with recently. Gruber’s theory certainly sounds plausible and I’d assume that if this was doable in software one of the jail breaking teams would have done it by now since that community loves to find cases where they remove Apple’s limitations.

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This might be the worst thing he's done so far, but it's not even the stupidest thing he's done this week. Five days ago he put out a statement congratulating

by tehwebguy 9y ago

acdha 9y ago
That’s less far-fetched than it sounds when you know that the iPhone did have FM tuners in the hardware for every model prior to the iPhone 7, which removed the headphones used as an antenna, and groups like http://freeradioonmyphone.org/ http://freeradioonmyphone.org/ have been trying to get the FCC to mandate opening up hardware access for many years.
- tehwebguy 9y ago
  That entire organization appears to be built on a misconception. This is the most detailed description I can find: > I’ve dug around, and what I’ve been told is that there is an FM radio chip in older iPhones, but it’s not connected, and there’s no antenna designed for FM radio. The chip is just part of a commodity component part, and Apple only connected the parts of the chip that the iPhones were designed to use. No iPhone was ever designed to be an FM radio, and there is no “switch” that can be “flipped” — nor software update that could be issued — that could turn them into one. It’s a complete technical misconception. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/28/fcc-fm-iphones https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/28/fcc-fm-iphones
  - acdha 9y ago
    Yeah, I’m definitely not endorsing them, only noting that this isn’t a new issue Pai came up with recently. Gruber’s theory certainly sounds plausible and I’d assume that if this was doable in software one of the jail breaking teams would have done it by now since that community loves to find cases where they remove Apple’s limitations.