Not sure how this technology is different from Pandora, except Pandora is better. Your pick what type of music you like song by song (you give each song a thumbs up or thumbs down) and it finds others songs that are of the same type. After a while you have a customized radio station that plays only the music you like.
Oh, and its FREE.
Not sure how this technology is different from Pandora, except Pandora is better.
To tell you the truth, I had never heard of it before (neither the competitors). The first I heard was with Apple's purchase.
And as it usually is with Apple, you never know what they're going to turn it into. Whatever it is, you can bet they will be at the front of the market with it and it will burst on the scene like gangbusters, when Apple has finished doing to it what they are going to do.
For all I know, it may shut down now, and then something else come up in the future, when Apple finishes its work.
After a while you have a customized radio station that plays only the music you like.
I don't think (from what I'm reading) that Apple is doing this, a customized radio station to listen to the music that you like.
What I think is a possibility (but no one really knows for sure, at this stage) is that a iPod/iPhone user who can't have all his music (that he has at home) on either of those devices (because of space limitations), may be able to access "his own music" via the "cloud" and through this service. So, this would be access to one's own music.
In addition, there may be another and additional component where you can also listen to music that you very specifically pick (song by song) and hear it play (as opposed to the generic music that you like).
So, it's going to be a "featured packed service" I would say (and say, by knowing "Apple")... :-)
Oh, and its FREE.
What I described up above, I don't think you can get "free" from it... :-)
Thanks - Checking Pandora out now ... Stevie Ray Vaughn brings up Eric Clapton - so far two thumbs up! ;-)