sam henri goldhey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
For context, back in 2010 when the iPhone 4 came out, people noticed you could grip the phone in a certain way and the signal bars would plummet from 5 to, like, 2.
A few weeks later, they published a letter (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2010/07/02Letter-from-Apple-Regarding-iPhone-4/) admitting fault, blaming a bad formula.
The letter was shared around and clowned upon (https://daringfireball.net/2010/07/translation_iphone_4) but nobody really looked into what the formula between 4.0 and the patch in 4.0.1
I was a stupid eight-year-old at the time, but now I’m a stupid adult with access to a disassembler.
ash furrow (still spooky)@samhenrigold neat! it kind of hurts my brain to have someone who was 8 at the time explain the flaw in the iPhone announced at my first WWDC 😵💫 2010, that was like, five years ago?