I Want My… Pandora!

Posted on 15 September 2008 by


I love Pandora!

Their iPhone app is one of the few apps to have a 4 1/2 star rating from a massive 3100 comments over on iTunes. The words used to describe it include- “Wow”, “Amazing“, ”Flawless”, “One of the top reasons to get an iPhone”, “Jaw dropped” and the list goes on and on and on.

Pandora works over Edge, brings amazing music to your iPhone or Touch and is just fantastic! In the two months I have been using Pandora I have listened to hours and hours of music, been introduced to dozens of new artists and have become an increasingly huge fan of the whole “Pandora Experience”.

I LOVE Pandora! So the fact that Pandora may well have to close down operations makes me more than a bit sad. Sure there are some nice alternatives like LastFM, AOL Radio and the new iTunes Genius playlists but none of them are PANDORA!!!

The interesting thing is that almost everyone I’ve spoken to about this has the same response-

“If the issue is royalty fees why don’t they just charge a few dollars a month for the service? I’d pay it…”

But how to communicate that groundswell of support to Pandora??? hmmmm.

So over on WhatsOniPhone we are running a new poll that asks this-

“Would you be willing to pay a few $ a month to keep Pandora alive?“

So please, take a second, jump on over and cast a vote here. In three week’s we’ll forward the results to Pandora.

Hopefully it will give them a bit of incentive to think about a new model that allows us all to win.

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- who has written 2793 posts on Gear Diary.

Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen

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  • Joel McLaughlin

    Quick Answer?? No. s long as there is Last.fm and Magnatune. However, Last.fm may have the same problem as Pandora. Pandora and Last.fm are the first two thigns I thought about when contemplating a iPod Touch purchase. However, I think the gadget hound in me has changed….I may get a PSP. I think. Unless something better hits soon.