Car companies will never ever have a product to compete with those of
existing music companies, so you won' t have to worry about ever being tied
to a car manufacturer for your music service. But with google and apple
getting into the automobile business, it might end up the other way around.

Jim

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:27 PM Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Broadcast radio will survive, cell coverage in the US is terrible.
>
> Did you know that all iPhones have a built in FM radio tuner?  They will
> never activate it because it would hurt the Internet radio companies and
> lower data usage. Broadcasters are asking that it be turned on:
>
> http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/20/fm-radio-iphone/
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Steven Johnson
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 2:13 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Friday post: Why are new vehicles connected to the Net?
>
> But wait!  There's more!   Didn't someone post on here that the AM/FM radio
> is going away?
>
> Not sure where I saw that but I believe it.   I suspect that the car makers
> will then have you listen
> to "their" stations and their advertisements ad nauseum....    Sad but
> true.
>
> Nothing like a bunch of us old fogeys bad mouthing the future....   Get off
> my lawn!!!!
>
> Steven
> 91 Westy
>