“The iPod is the best player for digital music. And satellite radio kicks butt in terms of content. Put the two together and what do you get? A music revolution,” Hadley Stern writes for Apple Matters. “Imagine satellite radio as this fantastic faucet of sound that you can listen in on. But if you want to pause it, you can’t. And if you want to easily time shift it, a la Tivo, you can’t.”
Stern writes, “The iPod can solve all that. With the iPod satellite radio has a beautiful UI, and a ton of hard drive space that it can tap into. With a little bit of software and hardware magic we could have a TivoPod. It would tune into satellite radio and let you time shift recordings… A satellite iPod could [allow you to] hit a button while listening to your iPod that says buy this song and the song would download, via the satellite connection directly to your iPod. Or, at the very least, you could have the song show up in your iTunes the next time you launch it.”
Stern explores other ideas such as the “possibility is that satellite becomes the medium by which the iTunes Music store could be streamed as a subscription service” in his full article here.
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Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Karmazin discusses Sirius-enabled Apple iPod – May 25, 2005
Sirius CEO Karmazin looks to add satellite radio to Apple iPod; no deal – yet – February 10, 2005
Sirius has approached Apple on adding service to iPod – February 09, 2005
Analyst throws cold water on Apple iPod – Sirius Satellite radio deal – December 16, 2004
Analysts: Apple iPod + Sirius Satellite Radio ‘technologically unfeasible right now’ – December 15, 2004
RUMOR: Apple to add SIRIUS Satellite Radio (and Howard Stern) to iPod in mid-2005 – December 10, 2004
Non-Apple news: Howard Stern signs deal with SIRIUS satellite radio – October 06, 2004
