This will be nice to have on Apple TV. Should be nicer than the crappy Pandora interface on my Panasonic blu-ray player.
Basically, Apple paid up in the end. Or it threatened Sony with bags of future hurt.
Result = iRadio + iAds = I won't be using it anyway.
Apple can't "threaten" Sony with anything. They want Sony content they have to pay for it. Not to mention a lot of labels don't like iTunes to begin with so they would not give Apple as much control on the iRadio thing as they did with iTunes.
I really dont get this. WTF! Apple should be worring about giving a MacMini that holds 10TB of data. WE already have Radio on iPod and we already have ANY MUSIC on the internet for FREE
My station is currently listed in the iTunes Radio directory so I, too, hope it doesn't go away. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it did, though.Not sure, but I hope it's integrated with iTunes, and they don't sacrifice the existing iTunes radio.
This would be pretty good.... Let's hope they go this route.
Basically, Apple paid up in the end.
As a stockholder, I hope they didn't cave just to make a conference date.
Basically nothing. This is rumor not fact. Could be true, false, some mid point. Who knows.
To be clear, labels may not like iTunes, but it is their major source of income at this point. They can play hardball to a point, but they probably can't afford to sit on the sidelines either. Apple knows this and is good at exploiting it to get the deals done.
Go take a look at the e-mails that Jobs sent to publishers around ebooks days before the iPad introduction. He basically told them, "This is the deal. Here is why. Join us or die." We know how that turned out.
Turn out pretty bad for the publishers. I'm not sure of the point you're making. Snark not intended. I am really not sure of the point.
I really hope they don't actually call it "iRadio"
Ping was never great at anything.I hope it does. I hope it is Ping done the way it should have been all along. Opened to all artists with real sharing of more than just reviews but playlists etc.
Ping was great when it was Lala and had it come over full form it would have stood a chance. But for whatever reason it didn't and that was the iceberg that sunk it.
Better metadata combined with the connection data from Lala, Ping, iTunes Match and Genius would be a powerful and possibly 'killer' discovery tool.
Ummm...I'm just spit-balling here but Microsoft, Sony, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, iHeartRadio, AOL, etc..
I really hope you are kidding and being sarcastic with your question.
Jobs would've closed these deals last year, and got better rates too.
I'm not sure how it turned out badly for them. It turned the tides of the masses illegally downloading music and instead created an environment where people were willing to pay for it again.
Amazon, Netflix and Sony I agree. The rest ehhh. Spotify took a while to come to the U.S. iTunes gives Apple a lot of respect amongst the big four. Google meanwhile took a while to sign all four major music labels.
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Alas we're robbed of him. Excited to see what Jony can do though.
The iphone has been out 5 years now and they are finally getting a radio app when no one was really asking for one? So revolutionary.....