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The 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 likel
by lazide 2y ago
The 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.