akirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I never had the desire for an iPod since they never included a radio (AM/FM). Never understood why. Because it's a digital music player, not a radio. Same reason my portable shower radio doesn't play mp3 files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 The standard dock has been around since, crap when the first iPod came out...I know USB adapters (on phones) have changed 3-4 times in the same period, getting smaller. The usb connector has changed but the interface specs have not AFAIK. This means that only the cable has to change, not the firmware/software. It's still a usb connection regardless of the connector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTwannabe Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I never had the desire for an iPod since they never included a radio (AM/FM). Never understood why. Because you can't buy FM radio from the iTunes store. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Guess I spoke too soon. Multi-Touch and music. Smart ways to stay fit. Clock faces. A built-in FM radio. Everything about iPod nano is a huge hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Because you can't buy FM radio from the iTunes store. You can now. iPod Nano has a fm radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerM Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Because it's a digital music player, not a radio. Same reason my portable shower radio doesn't play mp3 files. A CD player is a digital music player, but my old Sony Discman still had a radio. (I should say "has" because I still have it and it still works, although I don't use anymore) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneekr Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) Same reason my portable shower radio doesn't play mp3 files. If your current shower radio fails, you can replace it with this one with a water resistant MP3 player compartment. Cost is about $25 or less. Edited June 22, 2012 by aneekr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 My 5th gen iPod Nano has an FM radio built in. (and a video camera and voice recorder for some reason). It is at least 3 years old. FM in ipods have been around for quite a while. http://store.apple.com/us/product/FC031LL/A Now ask me how many times I've used the FM tuner. Go on.... Go on.... That's right. Never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edstock Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 If your current shower radio fails, Jeez — if you gotta have a radio on when you shower, maybe it's time for a brain re-format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I didn't say you couldn't have a device that does both, just that it's not in demand. Look at all the people who don't even listen to FM in their cars any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerM Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 You can now. iPod Nano has a fm radio. Should've had one from the beginning, imo. Kept me from considering one. Nowadays I just use my Droid Razr for MP3s and an app if I want radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PREMiERdrum Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 If your current shower radio fails, you can replace it with this one with a water resistant MP3 player compartment. Cost is about $25 or less. I can't figure out why I'd want a picture of a guy shaving on my radio! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Or more importantly - why he's wearing a Tshirt in the shower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Or the shower is off while he's wearing a shirt and shaving in the shower for a picture on my radio...crazy world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) I can't figure out why I'd want a picture of a guy shaving on my radio! I would prefer a picture of a nice-looking young lady shaving on my radio than a man! And, preferably, she wouldn't be shaving her face....... Edited June 22, 2012 by fordmantpw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PREMiERdrum Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I would prefer a picture of a nice-looking young lady shaving on my radio than a man! And, preferably, she wouldn't be shaving her face....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisH Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 A friend of mine plans to buy a new car next summer. She currently drives a Fusion with Sync (not MFT). She mentioned that she will be looking only at vehicles that have the Siri button. She likes the Fusion, but is not interested in a new one if it doesn't include the Siri button. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoonerLS Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 The standard dock has been around since, crap when the first iPod came out...I know USB adapters (on phones) have changed 3-4 times in the same period, getting smaller. That's the irony of the whole deal; the original iPod had a non-proprietary connector--FireWire. The 30-pin dock connector didn't come around 'til the iPod Touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 A friend of mine plans to buy a new car next summer. She currently drives a Fusion with Sync (not MFT). She mentioned that she will be looking only at vehicles that have the Siri button. She likes the Fusion, but is not interested in a new one if it doesn't include the Siri button. If there are any cars next summer with the SIRI button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJensen Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Does she even know what the Siri button does? I'm guessing 'no'. I'm guessing that there's this widespread misconception that the Siri button will allow Siri to manage your vehicle "Siri, set the cruise to 75." "Siri, set temp to 72", etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 And, preferably, she wouldn't be shaving her face....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Should've known that pic would come up! :hysterical2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJensen Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yep. We're there: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Harbinger Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Because Apple has never been *that* third party, right? Like say, the way they bought Siri and all of a sudden it stopped working on older iPhones? I phrased it like that just for you And also, wean people off Google and replace it with what? Their own search engine? I think it's the things besides basic web search that Apple's more interested in. Finally, nothing you've said convinces me that voice command is anything other than cul-de-sac. A novelty item that is---at its absolute best---a slightly more error prone and slightly less time consuming way of performing certain unimportant tasks. Meh. So don't use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJensen Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 See, and that's the whole craziness with Siri. Apple doesn't like relying on outside suppliers, and yet, have they the ability to furnish useful content at the other end of generic Siri queries? It's like, okay we bought Siri fairly cheap. Now how do we take advantage of the results Siri furnishes. Okay. How many people will we have to hire to do that. Okay, and how do we make money from that. Okay, how do we make sure we aren't ticking off our customers. Etc... A larger software company like Microsoft could plug Bing into Siri, a smaller or less hidebound company would be content to outsource the search results to Google (or Bing). So where does Apple go? Do they really want to go down the rabbit-hole with Siri--and invest a significant amount of resources into a replicable technology (widely understood machine learning algorithms + voice recognition software) that in large part depends on the breadth of its established user base? From another perspective this looks like the PowerPC vs. Intel thing. PowerPC chips were better---and then they weren't. And once they weren't they weren't going to catch up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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