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Apple Working on Pandora-Like Music Service? [Updated]
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And you have a problem with this why? If Apple can do it better than what is out there what should stop them?
itunes radio...hello??
iTunes radio has been around for ages.
It would be great if Apple were to revamp that and make it just a bit more customizable.
iTunes radio has been around for ages.
It would be great if Apple were to revamp that and make it just a bit more customizable.
Didnt Samsung do exactly that also.
funny how the die hard apple fan will bend it to how they want to view it.
No.
By your logic, Spotify, Rdio, and all these other music services shouldn't exist because all they did was take what Pandora had and changed it up to make it different/better.
That is a pretty distorted image you have of musicians. Most of the musicians I know understand themselves as people who make music, not records. They get a tiny fraction of the money that the record companies make anyway.
I actually don't really get why record companies still exist, to be honest. There is absolutely no need for them. You can distribute music very well online, even better. The production of records at home is also not a real problem today (it's not even expensive). Every other byproduct of the record industry is actually highly cancerous for musicians, as they limit creativity and innovation. Thinking about that I am happy about every development that damages the power of record companies.
only if you're like old people who end up listening only to music they grew up with. i grew up in the 80's but listen to A LOT of today's music
With iMessage, Apple bypassed carrier data plans for text messaging. People love streaming music, but it's a data hog. I wonder if this is a sort of iMessage for music, again bypassing carrier data and going directly through Apple's servers. That way people wouldn't have to worry about how much music they stream. For a lot of iPhone users, this could be a big deal.
If this keeps up, Apple will pretty much be their own carrier without technically being one.
I'd like a system that scans your library and puts together a channel suited to you. Genius playlist but based on pandora like streaming technology.
Own the space!
Looks like Apple Inc. could step in and OWN this space...... as they rightfully should!
Looks like Apple Inc. could step in and OWN this space...... as they rightfully should!
Not really.
I'm not saying people buy NO music when they're older but I'd wager there's a fairly standard pattern. Most young children buy very little or no music. Teens buy some but get most as presents. People in their late teens, twenties and thirties buy lots and then it probably declines as you get past your forties ending up with very little or no music bought in your seventies and eighties.
Just look at most record collections and you'll see this pattern - the biggest spike will coincide with the time when the owner was 16-35. And doesn't that make sense? I mean, when you have a back catalogue of much loved music that you enjoy listening to often you have limited time for listening to new music and so you buy less of it. Unless you intend to either stop listening to the stuff from your youth (which no one does) or devote an ever greater share of your free time to music consumption (which some people do, granted, but for most that's just not realistic).
Of course this isn't true for everyone. Some people stay very engaged with the music scene for their entire lives (more power to them I say! I hope I'm as interested in modern culture in 30 years as I am today) but surely you can't be disputing the general trend?
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I'm not sure if that's accurate. I believe iMessages do count towards your data. How could Apple bypass the data plan? If it's not using Wifi that is. I'm assuming we're talking here about using data while NOT on Wifi, otherwise the entire debate is essentially null.
No, I mean, what would they sue over? Is Apple copying their app or some code? There are already many competitors in audio streaming, and Pandora isn't special. Adding Apple isn't anything, if it happens. If anyone, I would think they'd sue ClearChannel (or lobby for anti-competitive action) for their I Heart Radio app that has combined Pandora-like abilities with actual ownership of terrestrial radio stations.
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It doesn't hit Apple's servers until it's already gone through the carrier's data connection, using your data plan. What it bypasses is carrier's SMS servers.
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So, you'll never be old? Sad plans, dude.
Just improve my $25/year iTunes Match service so that it streams and I'll be content. I'm old enough that I've collected enough music over the years that I don't need access to an infinite library of music.
Yes, because why pay twice? I´d love to have it integrated into the Match Service.
Yes, because I bought the apps FROM APPLE. In contrast, I have not bought any music from Apple; I only buy lossless formats. So it's none of their business what music I've bought elsewhere.