Interesting question noted on redorbit blog about Apple's decision to build ipods with FM radio.

The question asked if Apple were going back in time - FM radio is being replaced with DAB in the UK but not it seems in the US

How dim would you have to be to expect an American company to put a DAB radio into an iPod when they don't actually use that system in the US ?

Steve Jobs won't care about the FM switchoff in 2015 because the average life span of any ipod is about ten seconds before it becomes obsolete. If DAB is the future then there will be some kind of DAB ipod before 2015, easily.

My hope is they were to include FM radio into the iPhone and an updated iPod Touch, but planned to implement the update to the iPhone with the 3.1 software update which was to be released with this updated Nano.

However, the delays in including a camera in the iPod Touch, which wasn't launched yesterday meant that this was delayed.

This is just a pie in the sky hope - so don't expect it to happen. But an FM radio in the iPhone would be great.