You have to pay this tax anyway if you have an internet enabled device that lets you receive radio and or tv via the internet. ;-)Ugh, I understand the background, but please no. Functional FM radio on my phone would turn it into a radio device, forcing me to pay a radio tax (which is like $20 per month from Swiss franks).
Why doesn’t she use an app like TuneInRadio on her iPhone instead?Wife has new iPhone SE, but listens to old NOKIA's radio.
lol, yeah, cuz there is no way to listen to FM radio right now on your phone that isn't free...The pressure is because more people are streaming and less listening to radios. This is not some altruistic move by the National Association of Broadcasters. They've long wanted to have the radios enabled so the apps can be rolled out and compete against streaming services.
What range does wi-fi have? Folk can't get signal at the other side of their house never mind the other side of a state/country.couldn’t emergency broadcasts be transmitted via Wi-Fi?
or no?
These things have existed on PCs for years. Not so sure that mobility of these things really really affects piracy or competition.Putting on my dev hat... am I the only one thinking of this possibility:
FM radio API
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Song recognition API
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Recording
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Apple Music Competitor
If they limit recording, then it wouldn't be a threat. But opening up the API to devs and prohibiting recording wouldn't be a popular move.
You have to pay this tax anyway if you have an internet enabled device that lets you receive radio and or tv via the internet. ;-)
They require WiFi or cell access, which is the entire point of Ajit’s argument.lol, yeah, cuz there is no way to listen to FM radio right now on your phone that isn't free...![]()
No one is arguing against it. Apple could add hundreds of free features but why would they unless there was a real large number of users that could benefit and that feature could recoup the investment it takes to implement?Why would anyone argue against adding a FREE new feature, that cannot hurt, but can only help save lives?
This feature ALREADY is built into every iPhone ever made, the impact on battery life should be minimal, as there is no transmission.
The whole point from the FCC Chairman was following a natural disaster, to allow people to listen to FM via over-the-air broadcast because of widespread power / cell tower outages. Wi-Fi has a very limited range (compared to FM radio signals) which means you would have to have a lot of Wi-Fi devices still online to provide coverage to an area of possibly hundreds or thousands of square miles that are without power and/or cellular coverage.couldn’t emergency broadcasts be transmitted via Wi-Fi?
or no?
I don't think the risk from hurricanes is very high in Switzerland.![]()
My understanding is that it’s always been about the function not working well. Apple set out to develop a phone, not a handheld radio. A chip they’ve chosen to help perform the phone’s functions also has some FM utility, but Apple hasn’t spent a lick of energy on engineering the antenna or software to really USE that function. I don’t believe that it’s as simple as turning it ON as the FCC chair is suggesting.
Apple should turn it on, so millions of us get static, to prove how ignorant the request is.
However, I have no idea if any of this is true and for all I know, they could turn it on tomorrow and it’d sound and work fine. Only Apple really knows that.
Right. I wasn't arguing against FM being turned on, but the notion that broadcasters were pushing this idea because FM is dying.They require WiFi or cell access, which is the entire point of Ajit’s argument.
hmm. didn’t really mean they should put an Airport Express on top of the radio station and hope for the best..What range does wi-fi have? Folk can't get signal at the other side of their house never mind the other side of a state/country.
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how many lives is the FM feature worth?No one is arguing against it. Apple could add hundreds of free features but why would they unless there was a real large number of users that could benefit and that feature could recoup the investment it takes to implement?
I agree, but in today's clickbait world (and the FCC commissioner is a complete jackass) Apple gets put in the headline when the vast majority of smartphones around the world do not have the FM transmitter enabled either. Funny, that.