|
Title: A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate Post by: HCK on October 14, 2025, 04:05:07 pm A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/10/The-20-bytes-of-code-that-resolved-Antennagate.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Ah, 2010. The year when Apple launched the iPad, but the limelight was stolen by something else entirely: <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/antennagate/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Antennagate[/url]. Soon after the launch of the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-4/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iPhone 4[/url], users discovered that when they held the phone in a typical grip for a phone call, the number of bars shown for signal strength immediately dropped dramatically.</p> <p>Apple responded in a number of ways, including Steve Jobs famously suggesting that users were holding the phone wrong, but the issue was resolved by changing just 20 bytes of code …</p> <a data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="aapl,antennagate,iphone-4" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" data-post-id="1022913" href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-20-bytes-of-code-that-fixed-antennagate/#more-1022913" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate (https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-20-bytes-of-code-that-fixed-antennagate/) |