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Talking Heads Discussion
Sep 29, 2017 Headline: "Trump's FCC Commissioner Calls on Apple to 'Activate' iPhone FM Antennas That No Longer Exist"" [""I've dug around, and what I've been told is that there is an FM radio chip in older iPhones, but it's not connected, and there's no antenna designed for FM radio. The chip is just part of a commodity component part, and Apple only connected the parts of the chip that the iPhones were designed to use. No iPhone was ever designed to be an FM radio, and there is no 'switch' that can be 'flipped' — nor software update that could be issued — that could turn them into one. It's a complete technical misconception.""] Daring Fireball