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iPhone Apps' Launch of Siri XM: A Powerful Combination

I hadn't seen that side of it because I thought Sirius-XM was only good for satellite delivery using their receiver chip. This sounds like decent news. However, I still wonder if people want to pay a subscription fee when there are many other internet stations for free. Well, it's worth a try, otherwise those satellites will be just be moving in their geosynchronous orbits doing nothing but bumping into space junk.

But isn't Sirius-XM going to offer this app to other mobile platforms, too. Apple isn't getting any exclusive deal on it, are they?

I don't think a few dollars a month is a big deal, but I still wonder how much time I'd get to listen to it. There are so many other things to do once you have an iPhone or iPod Touch. Games alone can sap up hours and hours without even counting things like listening to one's own music. I'll just have to wait and see.

Apple and Sirius XM Partnership: Combined Strengths Too Big to Ignore

Sirius XM Radio at $.41 a share and $3 billion dollars in debt after being as high as $60 a share back in 2000. Enough said. Apple, please stay away from this crappy satellite radio venture. If anyone could figure out how to make even a little money out of satellite radio, mighty Microsoft would have bought the company by now and added receiver chips to their fantastic Zune product and claimed it the next iPod killer.

Millions of cars and homes have satellite ready receivers, but there is no point in having it. Most vehicular users don't drive far enough to need it and most home users can use internet radio with thousands of stations. Satellite radio is next to useless. Now maybe if those satellites mostly used for transmitting some decent form of video (Backseat TV). But devices would still need to use a proprietary chip to receive that data and I'm sure the signal would be flaky at best for handheld device users.

Apple doesn't even believe in putting FM radio circuitry in their products so forget about them putting some satellite chip in their products. Apple won't touch Sirius XM Radio. They just don't need a venture that been losing money for years and years with no end in sight.

I've read a little bit about the technology and it's somewhat impressive, but I just can't imagine how Apple would go about convincing users that this is something they need and turn it into a money-making venture. Turn it into a hobby like Apple TV? That's what Apple calls products that they can't sell.