“Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mel Karmazin has spoken with Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steven Jobs about working together, a Sirius executive [CFO David Frear] said,” Bloomberg reports via the New York Post. “Sirius’s S50 portable satellite radio, which costs $330 and was introduced this year, allows customers to download programs and fast-forward or rewind. The device also stores music files, which may pose a threat to Apple’s digital-music dominance with the iPod devices, which range in price from $99 to $400.”
“‘Would we be interested in working with Apple? Sure. I’m not sure it’s likely to happen, Frear said,” Bloomberg reports.
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Forget adding live satellite receive capability into iPods for now. With the podcast idea posited in the headline, a couple of signatures, a quick daily encode, a couple of graphics and some text and it’s all set to go on Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Sell the shows a day after for a reasonable price. Or would that put too much of a dent in Sirius’ heavily-Howard-dependent subscription signups?
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