It would not have been so fun. And all Internet radios I have seen so far have some features that irritate me. For instance volume is push-buttons instead of turning knobs.
Actually, the only interface I would have on a radio is two turning knobs, one for volume and one for channel.
Thats all. The rest could be some phone or PC setup like 'kingsuper20' suggested.
Too sad Apple never gave us a radio. I might have been an Apple customer if they had.
Did you consider making a DIY internet radio from a raspberry pi? That's actually what I was expecting to see based on the title.
I used a rpi to make an internet radio for our living room our of a 1950s wooden console radio I picked up at a thrift store for 20 euros. Works great and keeps the illusion that the room is free of computers.
With one baby, one toddler and three more kids around there is not much free time :)
I would love to put a Raspberry Pi inside an old radio myself.
But again, if you didn't like them and had this gadget (or wanted an excuse to buy one ;) ), then it's the better solution. I was mainly reacting because it seemed like a lot of people thought that this is a generally practical solution.
it's a neat project, but if the goal is simply to listen to nearby radio stations (rather than streams), the simple radio is peerless.
as mentioned in your sibling comment, i also wish apple had given us radio functionality in their idevices. as i understand it, it was mostly a matter of providing an app and not disabling the hardware, at least in some if not all iterations of the iphone.
It's an existing product.