SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion

Re:SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion by jbob2000 on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:58PM (#18059277)

This just sounds like a problem with your car's stereo. For me, I get in the car, plug my phone in (always have a car-only charger cable), press "Media" on the dash, and it picks up whatever was playing on my phone.

I don't have sirius built into my car, I think this is an american car thing (did sirius pay them buckets of money for this integration? methinks so). If I wanted it, I'd have to have a ugly receiver taped somewhere on my dash.

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Re:SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion by josefresco on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:16PM (#18059961)

*Multiple cars. High tech, low tech doesn't matter - it's a shit show. You know what still works? FM radio.

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Re:SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion by freehunter on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:57PM (#18061393)

You must have a great local radio market, then. I wouldn't consider any of my local FM stations to be "working" radio.

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Re:SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion by josefresco on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @07:35AM (#18065372)

It actually rebounded (post Internet era) and exploded locally (I live 1.5 hours from Boston). I listen to NPR, a top 40 station when the kids are in the car, and there's a local rock station that's just as good as any SiriusXM channel (the kids aren't wild about that one). More commercials sure, but sometimes you luck out and your 5-10 min car ride has tunes the whole time.

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Re:SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion by handruin on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:01PM (#18060385)

This isn't just an American car thing. My past two Japanese vehicles and two German vehicles had SiriusXM built into the radio.

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