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This is a discussion on SiriusXM for Your iPhone is Here! within the iPhone App Store forums, part of the App Store category; I have sirius in my car and really enjoy it. I would like to have it on my 3g....
I have sirius in my car and really enjoy it. I would like to have it on my 3g.
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I can't wait for this! Have been waiting for this for a long time!
No joke, the iPhone has made me an apple believer.
This should be great if it works good. My new car came with XM and I have to say thats its great! I have 2 channels programed in my car from that pic you posted lol.
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I will get this in a heartbeat if it comes out!
I love Howard Stern
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I could not be more polar opposite than you on this. I hate commercial radio... the ads are so demeaning and annoying. Basically... I will not listen regardless of what they are playing. I can only listen to so much public radio even though it is commercial free. For me... Sirius and XM (we have both in various cars) is valuable because offers commercial free content... not because of the actual music.Originally Posted by FlwrPwer
I do think that they will have an ongoing severe biz problem. Right now, their value proposition is that they can deliver music almost anywhere... regardless of cell or internet reception. As internet coverage covers the globe... the value of satellite radio diminishes. However... at this point it is too far away for me to worry about... so I subscribe to both XM and Sirius... which of course is in the process of becoming a single service.
I am really looking forward to this application!
/Jim
Sirius and XM have already merged and as a subscriber to Sirius I now get the combined Sirius/XM broadcast: is this not true where you live? You also state that you like Sirius/XM because they are commercial free: in fact, many of the news broadcasts are relays of regular TV broadcasts and contain ads.
I agree with you that satellite radio is in for problems: if you use it mainly for music, you are at least as well off using an ipod or similar player and of course then don't have to pay subscription fees. I have been aware for some time that as I listen to certain channels frequently, there is only so much music in the satellite library and I again start hearing the same pieces in the same sequence.
Last edited by pradley; 01-13-2009 at 02:17 PM.
XM and Sirius receivers are not compatible. The newly merged company has two sets of satellites... one for XM, one for Sirius.
The companies have legally merged... but the two businesses have not completed merging yet. For example, I was a subscriber to both XM and Sirius. The two billing systems have not been merged yet... so there are still two separate bills. In my case... my single Sirius radio has a lifetime subsription... so it is not a huge issue. However, since I cannot list my Sirius receiver as my "first" radio... I have to still pay the higher initial price for the first of my XM radios. They claim that once the two billing systems are merged, then my "lifetime" Sirius radio will be my fist subscription, and then I will only have to pay the "additional radio" fee for the 2nd and 3rd receivers.
Also, the programming is not totally merged. They offer "best of XM" or "best of Sirius" as cross programming... but the content is not the same. If you have both XM and Sirius receivers, you will get different content... with some overlap.
Regarding commercials... that is the exception, and it is easy to avoid channels that do not offer commercial free programming. For example, I refuse to tune into any XM stations with the CM designator.
/Jim
Last edited by JimP; 01-13-2009 at 02:31 PM.
That's interesting. I was a Sirius subscriber and now get Sirius/XM combined programs, though I am not sure I don't also get separate Sirius broadcasts. I will check when I am next in my car for a spell (the weekend, probably). The more I hear Pandora, and now Slacker, on my iphone, along with all the stuff I have imported into it from itunes, the less I see the need for Sirius/XM (I am not a fan of Howard Stern, so what other good reason is there?)
