Worst iPod fake ever

FM tuners are a symbol of two things: "I want my walkman back!" and "Feature Creep". Feature Creep is where people think something is less cool than the thing before it, if it doesn't have More Features. Even if features added are pointless (FM tuner in something designed to let you listen to what you want, not what ClearChannel wants) or a good idea implemented poorly (Bluetooth, anyone?) A really good example is VGA displays on PDA devices like Pocket PCs and Palms. The display is used to make the text sharper, not higher resolution. People go, "but I can't see any more data!" after they get their much-wanted VGA device, and then they go hack it so it displays 'real' vga. Then, they immediately go "Waaah, I can't see ANYTHING because the PDA user demographic is middle-aged and has to wear glasses just to see!". So basically, "iPods don't have an FM tuner, waaaaah" ---> "I want more! more! More! More! More! More! More! any company that doesn't give me what I want even if it's stupid or pointless is dumb!"

Get a Griffin iFM. Works great.

The things you can pick up on FM generally suck. Badly. My iPod has crashed exactly once -- because I accidentally unplugged it the middle of an update, and hosed the filesystem. Digg can be a very annoying place, and it's not just the anti-Apple/anti-Microsoft/anti-Linux/anti-whatever knuckle draggers. It generally has the atmosphere of the freshmen chess club. Some really cool stuff -- some amazingly stupid stuff.

It's time like these I wish apple had a secret police...

SHUDDERS Phil & Victor: I couldn't agree more about the FM tuner state. Who really really really wants/needs it?! Surely anyone could just buy a cheap [read $10!] radio receiver and stick to the iPod as well?!

Thank you, Victor, and no, you're not the only one who doesn't care about an FM tuner. (In fact, in the olden times there was a quiet cadre of us out there in the Internet who didn't even care about video playback on the iPod) I listen to my iPod to *escape* the radio, which is just endless homogeny when you can actually get a song between all the commercials. And, frankly, I was surprised to read that people criticize iPods for crashing... maybe if you're on the Linux vanguard, getting one to run Doom, or something, but mine has never acted up.

there are two parties on digg. the slashdotters and the digg...dotters? the slashdotters act like snobs the diggdotters don't count how many times you see 'it has apple in the name it gets frontpage'

I bought a Sony FM Tuner that was portable. You know, the tuner only type things. You'd think it was a tuner only, so it would be good. It STUNK!!! I got a bout 15 feet on my way to the gym and started hearing fuzz. It was a dreadfully painful experience in cruddy FM sound. Since then I firmly believe putting a tuner in the iPod would make the iPod an iPod killer. Does ANYONE have an experience with an MP3 player that has a good FM Tuner? That might make me believe it is possible. Otherwise, keep it out of the iPod.