TheLongshot
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Here is the blog entry by Lefsetz which kinda started things, suggesting that iPod adaptors becomming standard on Ford, GM and Mazda vehciles are the beginning of the end for Sat Rad.
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.p...tellite-radio/
and Lee Abrams' response in his blog:
http://leeabrams.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-radio.html
While Lefsetz has a point, to a certain extent (that Sat Rad isn't going to be to the level of adoptation as iPods are, and that Sat Rad should do a better job of marketing what they have to offer), I think he misses on one point where Sat Rad has an advantage: In the discovery of music.
He dismisses this by saying that most people of the iPod generation will probably be discovering music over the internet and will be downloading music with P2P programs. Problem is, you are talking about a small part of the iPod lifestyle. One of the things that makes the iPod so popular is that it is easy for the technically inept to fill up their iPod, mainly through the iTunes store, or by burning CDs through their software.
This doesn't really lend itself all that well to the discovery of music, tho. Yes, iTunes can push musical artists, but there is only a limited way to do that, and you are limited to what is new, not what is already out there and may have been forgotten. Also, iTunes doesn't quite carry everything. That's why I still have a $15 gift card still sitting unused.
There is also the potential of Podcasts, but those can be pretty limited as well, and doesn't offer an easy way to extract a song if you want to keep it around, which the Inno can do.
While iPods is a killer app in a lot of ways, it isn't in the discovery of music. It is very insular in that regard. It encourages you to just listen to your collection of music and not really expand your mind much.
Jason
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.p...tellite-radio/
and Lee Abrams' response in his blog:
http://leeabrams.blogspot.com/2006/0...ing-radio.html
While Lefsetz has a point, to a certain extent (that Sat Rad isn't going to be to the level of adoptation as iPods are, and that Sat Rad should do a better job of marketing what they have to offer), I think he misses on one point where Sat Rad has an advantage: In the discovery of music.
He dismisses this by saying that most people of the iPod generation will probably be discovering music over the internet and will be downloading music with P2P programs. Problem is, you are talking about a small part of the iPod lifestyle. One of the things that makes the iPod so popular is that it is easy for the technically inept to fill up their iPod, mainly through the iTunes store, or by burning CDs through their software.
This doesn't really lend itself all that well to the discovery of music, tho. Yes, iTunes can push musical artists, but there is only a limited way to do that, and you are limited to what is new, not what is already out there and may have been forgotten. Also, iTunes doesn't quite carry everything. That's why I still have a $15 gift card still sitting unused.
There is also the potential of Podcasts, but those can be pretty limited as well, and doesn't offer an easy way to extract a song if you want to keep it around, which the Inno can do.
While iPods is a killer app in a lot of ways, it isn't in the discovery of music. It is very insular in that regard. It encourages you to just listen to your collection of music and not really expand your mind much.
Jason