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The manufacturer needs the phone certified in advance of shelf stocking. There is nothing stopping the FCC from confirming their test results with retail units
by 1123581321 7y ago
The manufacturer needs the phone certified in advance of shelf stocking.
There is nothing stopping the FCC from confirming their test results with retail units. Plus, the risk from cheating is enormous. It’s a lot easier in the long run to just design properly working phones.
- preinheimer 7y agoIt didn't turn out to be easier to design a clean burning diesel.
- toast0 7y agoVW (and others, historically) didn't make special vehicles to pass the test; all of their vehicles would be expected to pass the test as administered on a dynamometer and fail the test if administered on a road. Designing to the test is different than carefully selecting (or altering) a sample that passes the test.
- ngcc_hk 7y agoThere is a German example.
- hurricanetc 7y agoNot quite the same. VW wasn’t making special vehicles just for testing. It was software on every vehicle designed to trick a dyno. I guess it could be theoretically possible for Apple to software cheat the FCC but it really does seem easier to just make a phone that meets the specifications.