[mikeash]

"That means you can’t have your iPhone in airplane mode while using PDQ, for example, because then it wouldn’t be able to tap into its wireless chips."

The only radio that's disabled in Airplane Mode is the cell radio. WiFi and Bluetooth still work if you turn them back on (Airplane Mode turns them off, but does not disable them).

Maybe they didn't actually mean that or understand what they were saying. But that's what I'm saying: BS article.

And it's not like it really matters. You can hardly talk directly to the WiFi or Bluetooth chips from an iOS app sandbox either.