Make the FCC happy; throw away your smartphone and get a boombox.
The recent hurricanes have made emergency information all the more important. Unfortunately, your iPhone can’t provide that when the network is down in such situations, and hasn’t had an FM chip since the iPhone 6S. Which is why it’s weird that FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai is calling on them to enable a feature that physically isn’t there. If that reminds you of anything, well…
I give Apple plenty of stick, and not without reason. But removing the FM radio chip in the iPhone wouldn’t actually be one of them, since it probably saved them production cost for something that, unlike oh say a 3.5mm audio jack, wasn’t strictly necessary. As in, even when they had it, it physically couldn’t work as a radio, because the hardware around it couldn’t support that function. So either Ajit Pai needs to stop building model airplanes in his unventilated office, or he needs to man up and admit that the FCC’s emergency response and readiness protocols need a good lookover.
~I can’t wait for the eventual $800 iRadio, which according to Apple fans somehow does shit better than everything else on the shelf at WalMart~
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