“It’s been widely discussed that Apple and Sirius met to discuss a potential satellite radio-enabled iPod, and that nothing substantial came of that meeting. Steve Jobs doesn’t add anything to the iPod that’s not bulletproof, and portability hasn’t been satellite radio’s strong suit so far. But now that Sirius has reduced the size of its satellite receiver chips, Jobs could change his mind,” Eliot Van Buskirk and Sean Michaels blog for Wired.
Van Buskirk and Michaels ask, “Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin recently showed off a digital audio player with a built-in satellite receiver at a conference last week, as Richard Menta recently pointed out. Could the satellite MP3 player player Karmazin says will be available by the end of the summer be a satellite iPod?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mason” for the heads up.]
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If Apple won’t integrate FM radio, which is free, why would they integrate satellite radio, which you have to pay a subscription for?
If this comes at all, I see it as an add-on, like the FM receiver.
how many times do i have to keep hearing this lame rumor?
not gonna happen baby
You will have to walk around with a dish on your head.. That satellite radio will sound real good on the commuter train and in my office..
Because integrated satellite radio could work together with the iTunes store and a Wi-fi enabled iPod. Hear a song you like? Click “buy now” and be taken directly to the iTunes store.
It could work.
Make it an add on accessory.
“If Apple won’t integrate FM radio”
it there if you want it.
why would they add satelite radio when its US only?
Akido – Exactly what i was going to say!
The rest of the world doesn’t do satellite radio. When will US-based commentators realise that there’s a world out there? Why would Apple put money into a product destined only for one market?
Satellite radio sucks unless you’re in a car with a clear line of sight to the sky. It has no place in an iPod.
nike could add a satellite dish to they’re shoes and use the new nano attachment to send the signal back to your iPod
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more is not better.
Have iPod so I don’t have to listen to lame DJs on the radio, talk, talk, talk, talk
the iPod has gotten much smaller and sleeker and everyone wants to fatten it up again.
These conflict – you don’t do both at the same time or intertwined.
keep’em seperated
Forget Sirius. Give me an iPhone!!!
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If Apple does do this, it should be an option. But, they would be picking the right company – Sirius is kicking the crap out of XM and will probably buy them soon.
Look, receiver schmeiver, Sirius can make an iPod attachment anytime they want. What Apple & Sirius need to do together is just get the Stern show on the iTunes Music Store. Thanks to coughcoughcough I’ve heard every one of Stern’s Sirius shows (okay I’m only on Last Thursday’s show), but I would prefer to listen to them legally. If Apple can work a deal with Rush Limbaugh then they can certainly work one with Stern & Sirius.
That would be a more likely scenario – Apple talking with Sirius about distributing it’s proprietary shows like Stern on iTunes. That would make more sense with Apple’s business model.
Like someone else noted, there’s nothing stopping Sirius from making an iPod attachment now.
if sirius made an attachment without apples input then it wouldn’t work that great. If apples in the loop they can write an ipod updater that would support the add-on and make it easier to use
I don’t think anyone else who makes attachments gets Apple’s input (except through the Made for iPod program), and they seem to be doing just fine.
I think this is one of those rumors that surface, then disappear, without anyone mentioning it again.
what about the new nike deal akido
Forgot about that one… First time for everything
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Sweet!!! Now, Apple just need to buy or make deals with Sirius, Nintendo, Palm, Motorolla and Nikon to give us, finally, what we realy need, an iGameSatPhoneClicComputePod, the long awaited ultimate device for the modern no-life digital lifestyler.
Nothing wrong with making the content available on iTunes as a download or streaming audio via a subscripton model. Win win for everybody.
“Because integrated satellite radio could work together with the iTunes store and a Wi-fi enabled iPod. Hear a song you like? Click “buy now” and be taken directly to the iTunes store.”
I posted that very idea in this forum over a year ago only it would work a little different. instead of buying the song through the iPod, there would be a flag added to you iPods directory, and it would buy/purchase the song the next time you synched with iTunes.
Another feature would be to add a wishlist for purchases. Flag a song to add to your wishlist.
I dont see why Sirius doesnt allow for subscriptions through iTunes right now as it is. Allowing you to ‘save’ several hours worth of content to your iTunes each month would be a great way to take you Sirius content on teh road with you.
If I could get a Sirius subscription through iTunes I’d sign up right now.
“If Apple can work a deal with Rush Limbaugh then they can certainly work one with Stern & Sirius.”
Shoot,all they had to do to get Rush was slip him a ziploc full of Oxy.
Meh, I have XM now.
I’m not about to pay for both.
MW: Function. It’s scary sometimes.
No iPhone
No Sirus enabled iPod
What is wrong with these writers rehashing the same old tired stories?
It’s not going to work, Apple is Apple. iPhones require entry into a highly competitive market. That’s not Apple.
Sirus enabled iPods are going to seriously jeapordize Apple’s powerbase and iTMS sales, artists will begin to leave iTMS in droves. Again that’s not Apple.
What we might see is a new intelligent iPod, with a better processor and software all it’s own.