Does iTunes Radio work like Spotify?

It is not like spotify but like pandora.

 

Its quite good and plays songs similar to Pandora. I heard the same station on both and the bands that played where almost the same. The ads are better on Apple, less annoying. Usually its trying to sell me a song instead of playing a large voiceover ad.

 

The freedom of playing whatever is only available for premium spotify users on the mobile platform, I believe. iTunes Match members are entitled to ad-free streaming. The deal breaker for me, though, is that being a "premium" iTunes radio user does not give you unlimited skips. I'm betting this was one of the hold-ups in the agreements prior to WWDC and ultimately Apple caved because (one, they can afford it ) they wanted to start beta testing and that was a prime feature in the presentation.

 

It's basically Pandora in iTunes/the Music app with easy access to a Buy Song button.