Comments on: The XM Sirius iPhone App Arrives (Do you care?)

By: Zats is not an idiot

Zats is not an idiot — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:41:08 +0000

Post my comments, be fair you have not published my second comment and you took down the first, I didn’t curse or anything, be a man and post all comments at least the second

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:13:27 +0000

If sirius has any brains, they should have mobile apps for everyphone in development right now. I’d like to see it on blackberries, winmo, symbian, webos etc

By: Elan

Elan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:33:54 +0000

Also, I guess you mean no NFL games? The NFL channel is on there and works fine for me.

By: Elan

Elan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:33:09 +0000

My guess is they’re going to release a separate Howard app. Opie & Anthony are on there and have been better for years now anyways. Charging extra for online listening is ridiculous. If anything, it should be the other way around. Charge $10 a month for online listening, and then $2 a month per satellite unit. Also, I agree, the commercial to talk ratio is as bad as regular radio. They really need to figure a better system out.

As for the app itself, it works, but it doesn’t feel well designed. How about album art? And of course, Apple’s lack of multitasking really hurts this. I have to stop listening to respond to an SMS message? Great!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:49:26 +0000

I think Jeff Kurrow is at the wheel right now.

It is official. Sirius sucks as much as clear channel and viacom did when Stern worked there.

If apple didn’t want Stern then they should have moved to Blackberry. Way more out there than iPhones, not to mention the demographic of a blackberry user vs iPod is about at least $30,000 plus more annual income, perhaps maybe market research could have prevented this mess from ever happening!
If someone presented me with Slacker premium for $3.00 per month or Sirius w/o Howard for $5.00 I would have taken Slacker, hands down.
However they also could have said Slacker free or $15.00 for Sirius w/ Howard and like most Howard fans I would have been right there waiting.

Mr.Karmizan…LISTEN to what the people say, especially the 6,000,000 or so of us who ran to best buy, radio shack and other stores to clunk down well over $100 dollars back in 2004-2005.

Have you forgotten why you have a seven figure salary?

I say out with Mel and get aomene with a non traditional brain in

A company like Sirius shouldnt have “suits”
You see how much they know now

By: Big John

Big John — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:45:40 +0000

You know, I probably wanted this app in 2002.

Now, I have so much available content (even if you just count podcasts and my ripped CD collection), paying for additional satellite-radio content just seems so foreign right now.

Stern, I can take or leave him, I don’t need it to survive.

By: Alex P

Alex P — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:28:46 +0000

I too was disappointed they did away with online listening. We’ve been XM subscribers at least 4 years and just renewed yet our online listening disappeared. I too am moving away from XM. Right now it is relegated to the car and my online listening on iPhone is Shoutcast!

By: Dave R

Dave R — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:06:27 +0000

Even though I bought an additional year of service so I could retain “online listening” without paying the additional fees they instituted in March, I still cannot listen to the iPhone app without an additional $3/month fee.

This “premium online” expense is just one of the many reasons all of their subscribers will eventually abandon them for cheaper and better services like Pandora.