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You say that with confidence, but there's no legal precedent for whether that's true since it does degrade other device's performance by violating the standard.
by Salgat 2y ago
You say that with confidence, but there's no legal precedent for whether that's true since it does degrade other device's performance by violating the standard. That's the question brought up that you can't answer, unless maybe you're a lawyer for the fcc.
- lazide 2y agoThe number of lawyers Apple can muster is an order of magnitude more than the FCC can, and the situation with Apple is worst case borderline. Apple isn’t likely to get in trouble with this unless a lot of things happen related to the situation that haven’t yet - and likely never will. Worst case, someone complains the the FCC asks Apple nicely to be more polite, and they then will be. Intentional interference here doesn’t mean ‘slightly tweak behavior from a given standard’, it means things like ‘intentionally create nasty interference to block other users’ or ‘recklessly spam the band with enough noise no one else can use it’. Notably, most cheap IOT wifi devices already do massive spamming of the band and terrible behavior that makes it nearly impossible for other users of the bands to work well, and they aren’t getting in trouble. See everything from cheap Wifi security cameras to ‘smart’ fridges.