3tunes – Opening Pandora’s Box
3tunes – Opening Pandora’s Box: the ability to “time shift” content in Pandora also equates to a big ole’ target on the back.
3tunes – Opening Pandora’s Box: the ability to “time shift” content in Pandora also equates to a big ole’ target on the back.
Cool stuff, but using Control4 is cheating. And expensive.
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The grass is always greener on the other side...
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This is so cool. Love that under New York is this hidden world of old.
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So, its not as good in the screen, the speed, weight, cell modem, video or apps, and yet is a competitor? How?
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I find it amusing that the same people who lament, mock and take glee in the demise of traditional media are very happy that one of the hallmarks of "New Media" - Techmeme - got a (deserved) profile in the New York Times.
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Pretty much sums up my feelings on Android. I fear as well that with the rapid pace of "This is the BEST ANDROID PHONE ON THE MARKET" -- seemingly every three weeks -- we are nearly to the point where one company (say HTC) will cause an Osborne Effect on another manufacturer (say, Motorola or Samsung). It is only in each companies best interest to have the worlds best Android phone (WBAP for short). I fear its about to get nasty.
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Shocker!
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Here here!
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R.E.M. should, one random day, close down College Ave between Broad and Washington, setup a stage, play, pack up and head back into their office. Unannounced.
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This should be interesting to see what happens. This is truly the mixing of technology and figuring out what is right and wrong. Basically in the Analog world, I work in radio and a radio station pays for the rights to play songs. A long time ago the invention of the casette tape was out in the public and fights ensued about that and VHS and being allowed to record shows/songs as they aired over tv/radio.
It was ultimately decided that the public was allowed to record whatever came off the airwaves and there is nothing that the industry could do to stop them…
Fast forward to internet radio stations. It is the same concept, paid to play songs in a somewhat random fashion. So would this be the equivilant to the next generation of “tape recorders” or would this be “downloading music illegally”?
I’m not saying this wouldnt be useful, but I’d rather not get the creators of pandora.com into legal hot water.
Does XM radio offer customized stations yet. i’m not talking about instant feedback, but some mechanism on the player device that captures the user decision and when near a wireless access point or network connection sends that data up to XM.
Hell, even an XM offline device would be cool, a music keg that could be updated regularly. This whole beaming over satellite thing is a bit too agressive in my book, when semi regular updating of a music database in the player would be almost as effective.
Pandora is so close to my ideal, i just wish i could listen to it in the car. Another setback for me is that I use linux, and pandora often crashes in the flashplayer 7 currently available in linux. They need to open source their protocol so that non flash implementations can be created, even if subscription access is required to access.