Apple getting ready to rival Pandora? WSJ thinks so
Rumor has it, everything surrounding Apple until Sept. 12th will start with rumor has it. And so, today’s newest get up has iTunes dead center. Supposedly, aka according to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is just about ready to release a “Pandora like” service that could span across the entire ecosystem, even PCs.
“Apple Inc. AAPL is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music.
Apple’s service would work on its sprawling hardware family, including the iPhone, iPads and Mac computers, and possibly on PCs running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system, according to one of these people. It would not work on smartphones and tablets running Google Inc.’s Android operating system, this person added, highlighting the mounting battle for mobile dominance between the two technology giants.”
Interestingly, when faced with rumors like these I look to the simple facts. Fact one: iTunes has got to be the worse piece of software known to man; it is long over due for some loving. This alone adds some validity to this rumor. But, as always, we’ll have to wait and see! Stay tuned!
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“and possibly on PCs running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system, ”
And it would suck like MegaMaid, too.
What a concept! I wish Nokia was this forward thinking — it will probably be years before there is a streaming music service for Nokia phones!
( the formatting stripped out my /sarcasm tag )
Unfortunately, the /sarcasm tag is one of few tags that HAVE to be placed in parenthesis (), not code tags. 😉
Apple making a streaming service is huge. Sure there are others already available, across many platforms, but Apple is the largest seller of music on the planet. And they have the single most popular phone, tablet, and mp3 player/handheld game console on the market. Adding streaming to the mix will be huge. If you don’t believe it at face value, just look at Pandora’s stock. Since WSJ published that article, their stock has dropped quite a bit.