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Originally Posted by abdeviation
i don't understand why on earth any company would lock down a feature built into the phone. couldn't they just advertise FM as one of the features of the phone instead of taking the time to lock it down for no good reason??
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Well yes and no. If they're market research indicated that individuals would use the FM radio more than they would downloading music from their sprint music store then yes they would lock it down.
I think that's the case with Sprint. "I think their data is flawed though." I personally have only downloaded 2 songs ut of the 1000 or so I shuffle on and off my storage card. 1 of the songs I DL'ed would not even play on my TP.
Now if I had an FM radio and the choice to use either, I feel it would definately be a selling point. Cuz we all know sometime there aint **** on the radio, and we turn to our recorded music. The amount of revenue generated by enabling a feature obviously did not outweigh theyre music store revenues. Although they probably didnt delimit they're queries by device type. That would require some effort on their part.