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Yet Apple disabled FM radio even though the hardware supported it because they wanted to sell music.

• lostlogin 4y ago
  Good. It’s bad enough hearing shitty cellphone music coming out peoples phones. Hearing radio DJs too would push me over the edge. Rant aside, is profit 100% the reason they blocked it?
  • Jtsummers 4y ago
    It was more a coincidence that they had some of the hardware needed for FM than a deliberate thing of them screwing over customers. It was the same chip that supported bluetooth and wifi. You also need an appropriate antenna to use a different radio frequency (or frequency range), I don't think they ever had that. The FM hardware was removed by the time of the iPhone 7.
• Maursault 4y ago
  While some bluetooth/wifi chips included FM radio functionality, carriers are not interested in providing smart phones with FM radio. The iPhone 6s was the last Apple model to include this chip, and even Samsung, that had models that enabled FM, ultimately also disabled it. But beyond the chip, the iPhone 6s didn't include an FM antenna, radio filter nor an amplifier, so even if it was enabled, it could never work. Regardless, newer iPhone models don't have that chip, so Apple can't possibly comply with Ajit Pai's irrational demands.[1] [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/whose-fcc-is-this/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/whose-fcc-is-this/
• GeekyBear 4y ago
  There's a small difference between forcing a handset maker to disable a feature that already works, and a device that never supported a given feature at all... and no, "the modem chip could have supported it" isn't the same thing.