XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-11-19 14:01, Wally J wrote:   
   > Alan Browne  wrote   
   >   
   >> You would think they'd go 頎柬綄頎柬綄頎柬綄 over their Android   
   phones not having an   
   >> AM radio built in - that's much more useful in an emergency as the   
   >> transmission range is typically higher - notably at night.   
   >>   
   >> Of course real preppers have real emergency radio receivers that cover   
   >> several bands, have long lasting batteries and can be charged with the   
   >> built in crank.   
   >>   
   >> Many preppers have transmitters too.   
   >>   
   >> Oh my!    Did you see what I wrote there?   
   >>   
   >> The Android phones can't transmit on radio frequencies other than the   
   >> built in cell co/WiFi/Blutooth!  How will they survive when the SHTF!?!?   
   >>   
   >> (It occurs to me that flat earthers are more cohernent than Wally).   
   >   
   > On the basis of logic alone, no amount of MARKETING is going to convince an   
   > intelligent person how "courageous" only Apple claims it is, for them to   
   > remove basic functional hardware - whose loss is what cripples the iPhone.   
   >   
   > How many _thousands_ of Israeli civilians who were inside their   
   > safe rooms and hiding under beds in bedrooms and even some hiding inside   
   > kitchen cabinets for half a day were there who would have given anything   
   > for an FM radio in addition to that almost worthless iPhone without it.   
      
   Riiiiiiiight.   
      
   FM radio one-way communication is so much better than the two-way   
   communication offered by every smartphone...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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