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Why Your Clock Radio Is All Abuzz About iPhones
blackbearnh wrote in with a story that's not really about the iPhone, but if your office speakerphones beep like mine does, read on: "If you own an iPhone, you may have noticed that it has a distinct and very annoying effect on clock radios, computer speakers, car radios, and just about anything else with a speaker. The folks at O'Reilly Media aren't immune, so they set out to discover just what is it about iPhones that makes them such bad RF citizens. The iPhones aren't the only bad apples in the cell phone basket and there's not much you can do about the problem. We're really in an interesting time in that there has never been so many high-powered personal transmitters just wandering loose in the world."
Apple is responsible for making sure that its devices do not interfere with other electronic devices. Enforcement has been rather slack. But I doubt many are complaining.
The environmentalists have gotten Apple to wake up and pay more attention to how green their practices are. Now the rest of us should wake Apple up and make sure they play well with others, especially with regards to harmful RFI.
Well, fuck you too, buddy.