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Apple Close to Striking Deal with Record Labels for iRadio
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the Spotify Radio feature is really lame when it comes to song selection. it's basically like listening to the top 20 on your local radio station - you hear the same crap over and over again
at least with Pandora there is a little more variety. but yeah, Pandora is automatically inferior due to lack of manual song selection
Technically illiterate (to the extreme) people will use it cause they don't know about anything else other than the built in app.
And I use Grooveshark
Sorry Apple, welcome to two years ago. If I can't choose what and when I want to listen to a song. Aka Spotify, then you truly have lost your edge. The potential was there, open up iTunes and make it just like spotify but from Apple. Really couldnt care less about a Pandora knock off.
This would definitely be a nice addition to iTunes, but I'd prefer to see a subscription service where I'd have access to the entire iTunes library.
This would cut down on piracy. There will always be people who think they have the right to something for nothing, but for the occasional downloader this would work.
I hate ads. Period. I would rather pay for a service than listen or look at ads. That's why I don't ever listen to terrestrial radio anymore. I will pay Sirius to listen to music in my car, and pay for Slacker radio to stream without ads. Major fail by Apple.
Not well. They are bleeding money because of their free customers.
But anyways if this offered high quality streaming I would use it. I used to use pandora to find new music and then spotify to listen to the music/bands that I liked but no option to stream high quality on mobile for pandora made me switch to spotifys crappy radio offering.
Not sure I don't use it on my PC. I pay $9.99 to use it on my iPhone.
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Choice? I mean that's what people say every time a new phone or tablet surfaces.
Apple is likely to make a boatload of money via this venture. I wouldn't bet against them.
I don't use any of those. I have used pandora in the past but its limitations make it annoying. This would likely be vastly superior.
I actually use jelli which is not standard streaming but user programmed stations and it is good.
I suspect if done right this will have a big impact on spotify and pandora. I suspect that iRadio will have features and benefits that put them ahead of the free offerings of pandora and the free spotify plan.
We shall see but claiming nobody will switch is naieve. Most iOS users likely don't use any of those other streaming products right now.
I downloaded spotify and was told for the next 48 hours all tracks are free and radio is always free. As I suspected people touting spotify here are being amazingly misleading.
IRadio will offer a free service that is very likely to be better then pandora or spotify's free access. For some reason many bitter Betty's have chosen to pretend that spotify's pay service is what one shouid compare to apples free service.
It is highly likely that apples service will offer much more flexibility and many more options than pandora or spotify's free option.
Please don't keep comparing apples free product to spotify's monthly fee product. Compare it to spotify's free product:
IRadio will offer a free service that is very likely to be better then pandora or spotify's free access. For some reason many bitter Betty's have chosen to pretend that spotify's pay service is what one shouid compare to apples free service.
It is highly likely that apples service will offer much more flexibility and many more options than pandora or spotify's free option.
Please don't keep comparing apples free product to spotify's monthly fee product. Compare it to spotify's free product:
I was praying for something close to Spotify, maybe something even that would let me access my terabytes of music with my mobile when on the road. This seems closer to Pandora and I left that in the dust long ago. Hoping for something awesome at launch, but it seems Apple is bringing the same snack to the party that Pandora brought with them 13 years ago.
I am comparing it to free to free when I compare what I hear of the two, and I'm a massive fanboy. As far as what I have with free Spotify when sitting at a computer I think it is top of the food chain. As far as the mobile version goes I think it is a wash between them and the competitors. From what I've heard of iRadio, I don't understand the people saying, "iRadio will be superior." It looks to be unfounded. It is Pandora with the ability to rewind a song...Wow, mind blown?
Personally I don't buy songs through iTunes so that feature is lost to me. It seems like Apple is doing this for no other reason than to try to drum up sales for iTunes. It seems nothing more than a "preview before you buy." I haven't heard of any features it is going to have that would give it a step up on any of the competition who have been doing it for years. I really don't see it pulling people away from Spotify.
Correction.. the version of Spotify that you pay for works everywhere on everything. The free version only works on computers.
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As they haven't made an actual product announcement I'd say we need to stay tuned and not prematurely pass judgement on a nonexistent product.