That article and your memory glosses over the fact that Apple redesigned the antenna to fix the actual problem in later devices - the antenna was changed in the Verizon iPhone 4 (which came out later), as well as the iPhone 4S and all subsequent models.
Having access to your own device doesn't break anything, they just don't want to be put in the same category as other FOSS Android distributions and play by Google's book so that apps will at least allow one open OS to work
The APIs it's relying on to show you that information do implement some anti-fingerprinting mechanisms - things like available memory will be put into rough buckets rather than returning the exact amount you have.
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