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Sirius XM Has Long Term Staying Power

SiriusXMs founder says:
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I have to agree. Using Satellites to deliver entertainment radio to individual subcribers is too late in the game. Our wireless and wireless earth based systems are cheaper and faster. The tie up with apple will work for apple device fans only, and provided they subcribe to 3G data plans. Edge and GPRS networks don't have the bandwidth.

Sirius needs to change their business model and deliver something new to a new audience, it needs to tap the world market, not just the US.

Windows Mobile: Like Using Fred Flintstone's iStone

Obviously the author is not a mobile power user, she prbably just likes to carry a cool looking expensive phone around rather than run useful apps on it. I have been using my HTC windows enabled phone for 2 years now and have run more apps on the windows mobile platfrom than 2 years ago than I can find on a Blackberry today. e.g
- full browser
- streaming media and media player
- dial-up networking(tethering)
- maps
- Sirius streaming radio
- custom desktops (weather, clocks)
- email (web based and IMAP)

..point I am trying to make is, Iphone is great for playing music, blackberry is great for texting and email, windows mobile phones are great for running apps..

An iPhone With Satellite Radio - Gasp! Really?

I used to stream Sirius on my HTC windows mobile pda since 2006..thanks to geekstoolbox app Sirius WM5. It was great because it was a true mobile platform. BUT, it also proved that you must be on a 3G network to receive uninterrupted streaming data (slower networks work too but unpredictable). This also means a good battery lasts about 1 hour, maybe 1.5 hours to power 3G speeds...my battery lasts a max of 15 mins now when continuosly streaming.


So before we conclude that Apple could be a saviour...please remeber folks..the IPHONES even don't allow you to replace a battery...I'm not sure how long they hold a charge when new and continuosly streaming.

Also I don't see why the need for satellites anymore, since our mobile broadband network is pretty widespread and growing.

Positions: Sold Siri stock at a loss and quit Sirius a year ago..I was unhappy with the number of Non-Live shows days and an increase in Ads on Howard 100. Also there are tons of free music streaming sites out there with higer bit rates than Sirius.