akindman

Sirius Releases New Toys In Time For the Holidays

Why buy new equipment when there's a pending merger that will render it obsolete if successful?

IPod vs. Satellite Radio: The Battle For Consumers' Hearts

Needless to say, the characterization of portable media player content loading/finding as something incredibly time-consuming, expensive, tedious, only for criminals, Satanists, Michael Vick, etc., is misleading and wrong.

It reeks of an appeal to fear argument that you might hear from a satellite marketer. I believe the young and aimless call that FUD.

IPod vs. Satellite Radio: The Battle For Consumers' Hearts

There are other ways to fill your personal music player besides the itunes store or illicit downloading. The vast majority of music on mine was ripped from my personal CD collection. Also, the net is full of great music that's free to download, like archive.org's Live Music archive. And there are podcast subscriptions, which are an easy way to get exposure to new music if that's your desire.

Satellite radio's main draw IMO is the exclusive live content, not the standard music stations.

Should The XM/Sirius Merger Go Through?

Your disagreement seems based on the notion that a monopoly is necessarily and always bad. The fact that it might be easier (at first) for consumers doesn't address whether the combined entity would have monopoly power or not.