nospam wrote:

> from what i've seen in wide a variety of places over several years,
> about half do not use anything and of the remaining half, the majority
> are using wireless headphones (mostly airpods but there are some
> others), with a minority using wired headphones.

Hey nospam, allow me to ask you an _adult_ question, ok?

You always seem to fabricate your own various and sundry "personal polls"
that always seem to agree with your preconceived notion that every
functionality that the iPhone lacks, is functionality _nobody_ wants.

Why?
>> Of course very few of the people wearing wired headphones are using an
>> FM radio since more than half were almost certainly on iPhones.
>
> which further proves how little demand there is for such a feature.

Regarding demand, why is it a fact FM radios are in _most_ smartphones?

>> FM radio use on phones is certainly not widespread, but it's also not as
>> rare as some people apparently believe.
>
> it's use is extremely rare.

The fact is that FM radio OTA isn't useful unless you have a receiver.
If FM radio is so rare, why are there so many FM OTA stations, nospam?

Note to morons: OTA means here that they're sending the waves out OTA.

> otherwise, it would be widely advertised as
> a competitive advantage over phones that don't have it.

Car companies don't advertise their cars come with seat belts, do they?
People selling houses don't advertise they come with windows, do they?
People who sell coffee don't advertise they can add sugar if you want.

Some things are basic and simply expected in a _functional_ device.
An FM radio is found in most phones because it's considered standard.

Except in one brand of phones, of course, which wouldn't matter so much as
a detail, except the iKooks who favor that one brand that always is missing
the functionality are the ones claiming nobody wants that functionality.

Which means it's important for _adults_ to note that all the functionality
that Apple removed (or never put in) the iPhone, is _always_ the
functionality that the iKooks spend gads of posts claiming nobody wants.

That adult observation brings me to my question of the iKooks like nospam.

> so few people
> care that many of them don't even realize their phone has it, if it
> does.

Based on observation that iKooks _hate_ only the basic functionality that
the iPhone lacks, the question is why do they _hate_ that functionality?

*They should be _happy_ that Android has basic functionality iPhones lack*

Why is it the iKooks come up with all sorts of fantastical excuses for why
they _hate_ what, to everyone else, is simple basic standard functionality?
*May I ask the iKooks why they _hate_ basic smartphone functionality?*
<https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/dS0CGiK-M00>
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Why is it the iKooks come up with all sorts of fantastical excuses for why
they _hate_ what, to everyone else, is simple basic standard functionality?