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I'm not sure this is the reason at all. Talk of FM on iPhones goes back many years - even leading to rumours of iOS updates brining FM support, but they obvious
by CraigRood 11y ago
I'm not sure this is the reason at all. Talk of FM on iPhones goes back many years - even leading to rumours of iOS updates brining FM support, but they obviously never materialised. Nowadays I think the FM part is basically down to the chips themselves and the low-cost solution to have a generic chip that does all, instead of having a limited subset of functions based on each deal.
- mcshicks 11y agoI used to work on combo bluetooth/fm/wifi chips that are used in cell phone applications. There is additional cost to make it work, both for bill of materials as well as recurring and non-recurring testing. So many customers preferred only to use the bluetooth/wifi portion of the chip. We even had a FM TX version in some chips.