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Exactly. Have that as an emergency option or a free substitute to streaming music and news. The more options there are, the better. Surely, this is not relevant for the US, where radio kinda sucks nowadays, and Billboard Top 100 are put on repeat, but in European countries, Middle East, Asia etc. this kind of thing is invaluable.
They'll never include it as it needs the headphone jack. Unless they expect a huge market for radio, that is big enough for them to offer a mea culpa and give back head phone jacks, it's never going to happen.
Would people love to get headphone jacks back? I'm sure. But I don't see the market being there to get companies to give in on that.
Bring back vinyl record players!
Are people missing some ads that they could otherwise be getting with an FM radio on their phone?
Radio has enshittified it's way to being turned off whenever I get in a vehicle that has it turned on, so I'd miss any emergency broadcasts anyway. Can't imagine paying extra to have it on a phone.
It has always baffled me why the need for headphones (to be able to use the radio function at all), let alone the total lack of an fm antenna in devices.
I never listen to radio. I stopped when it stopped being an option on my phone.