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Think the radio app probably is an interface for some native iOS API. Anyway it works, but it didnt for many years.

Originally posted by Risto:Think the radio app probably is an interface for some native iOS API. Anyway it works, but it didnt for many years.

I read about it but not sure whether it'll make it into anything and there's loads of other undocumented APIs that could be some real fun. I'm sure if the hardware is there someone'll get it going without Apple. After all, they got Bluetooth file sending working on it unofficially...which is quite something.

Risto

15 years

They were just too lazy to implement the full bluetooth specs. But it sounds good if you launch a 'feature' years later

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by Risto:They were just too lazy to implement the full bluetooth specs. But it sounds good if you launch a 'feature' years later

I want my copy and paste. Can you believe how long that took them to put copy and freakin' paste on it?

And then at the video of it being unveiled (yes, they actually introduced it as a major feature due to security concerns!) the attendees actually stood up and cheered. No word on whether they cheered due to the fact Apple decided to copy and paste something so painfully simple in there, or just fooled that it was the first phone in the world to have copy and paste.

How, I want to know, is copy and paste a security concern? You copy the word from a webpage, add security restrictions to block sensitive info like HTTPS fields and add it in. How bloody hard can that be? Oh well, it's there but not the point...'cos it's Apple's OS, they add things when they feel like it and not even doing it right.

Look at the dropping reception issue...a software issue my arse. More like cheap hardware that clearly doesn't work.

RememberEveryMoment

15 years

Originally posted by Risto:Think the radio app probably is an interface for some native iOS API. Anyway it works, but it didnt for many years.

nope, it's a normal app from a dutch station. They actually have put some FM hardware in the device, but they haven't 'unlocked' it yet.

jofice

15 years

Originally posted by dieder:[..]

nope, it's a normal app from a dutch station. They actually have put some FM hardware in the device, but they haven't 'unlocked' it yet.

You're saying there's a radio in my iPod and I can't use it?

RememberEveryMoment

15 years

Originally posted by jofice:[..]

You're saying there's a radio in my iPod and I can't use it?

yeppers.

Risto

15 years

I mean that the app calls an API like:

MediaPlayer->playFromUrl('http://www.radio538.nl');

Nobody makes their own playback system

That doesnt mean it looks like a different app. Same on Windows, most programs just link components together in a specific way.

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by jofice:[..]

You're saying there's a radio in my iPod and I can't use it?

There is, but it likely can't be accessed until some hacker gets in it and gets it going. Then Apple will get on to it and charge you to get it going.

Need some help too. How do you get Folders on OS4 and how the hell does the microphone feature work?

Risto

15 years

The FM hardware is probably on the same chip as the Wifi / Bluetooth radio. Its very common.They jsut didnt make an interface.

jofice

15 years

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]

There is, but it likely can't be accessed until some hacker gets in it and gets it going. Then Apple will get on to it and charge you to get it going.

Need some help too. How do you get Folders on OS4 and how the hell does the microphone feature work?

Just hold down on an app like you would to move it and when it starts wobbling you drag it over another app and drop it. And what microphone feature?

Theres on on your earphones

germcevoy

15 years

I always assumed they skipped proper bluetooth because they were shit scared of people bluetoothing thier itunes purchased media from thier device to somebody elses.

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