tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17540721.post114504534442964022..comments2007-02-08T13:24:32.497+01:00Szymon Slupikhttps://profiles.google.com/115855762914475187374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17540721.post-1145387146791127952006-04-18T21:05:00.000+02:002006-04-18T21:05:00.000+02:00flail, I agree 100%. what is more - I'm sure there is a market for a "Pandora on the iPod" software, ie. using iPod as a cache for offline Pandora. With a broadband connection you could fill an iPod with, say, 100 hours worth of music and listen to it in a way similar to Pandora when out of Internet coverage.<BR/>But what I love the most is those surprise songs and artists that keep on coming from Pandora, even if I never knew they existed! And they all match my preferences, that is awesome.<BR/>My iPod, despite being loaded with some 40GB fo MP3s, is so boring... I know all the music there by heart.<BR/>And, Blazej, there is really nothing stopping Pandora from introducing music presenters as an option. I would even envision an automated one fetching your personalized Google News and reading using text to speech ;) Of course you would still havethe thumbs up / thumbs down option working...<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>HeadworxHeadworxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11659982647690284677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17540721.post-1145349765358405652006-04-18T10:42:00.000+02:002006-04-18T10:42:00.000+02:00The main, and I believe the only, thing which will keep people buying iPods is listening the music they already know. The very CD they want listen now. But when given an alternative of listening to music they like many will choose Pandora, not their bunch of CDs.<BR/><BR/>And with HSDPA listening to Pandora on the road won't be a problem. It's the matter of time and marketing :)flailnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17540721.post-1145307452809748592006-04-17T22:57:00.000+02:002006-04-17T22:57:00.000+02:00Well I am not convinced. Really. The idea behind a Music Genome Project is really cool but I do not see the end of iPods and iTunes. I am listening to music while on the road - then the iPod is my choice. And while at home I also sometimes want to listen to a specyfic record. Then I choose it on my iPod as well. I mean I would like to have choice. But of course from time to time I would like to give Pandora a try and see what's there. But only from time to time.<BR/><BR/>For me experiencing new music is much better archived with a real radio station (like my local radio RAM http://www.radioram.pl/) with a real person by the mic. A person who will tell me in an interresting way some stuff about the artists and music he plays on the air. That is the next thing Pandora will not do. At least right now. :-)<BR/><BR/>So: cool idea but it is not an iPod killer app, really.Blazej Kotelkonoreply@blogger.com