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A 15-year mystery solved: The 20 bytes of code that fixed Antennagate

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Software engineer Sam Henri Gold discovered that Apple fixed iPhone 4's "Antennagate" signal bar drops with just 20 bytes of code that made signal transitions smoother and less dramatic.

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