Read an article saying that Pandora is gonna pick up where Rdio left off.....sometime in September.
Aye. This was
revealed last year shortly after Pandora acquired rdio's assets. (tech & select employees)
As a die hard rdio fan, I'm certainly looking forward to what Pandora conjures up & out of rdio's ashes.
My hope is they will resurrect rdio's fantastic features & uber intuitive UI that made them famous. Infamous? lol
Another wishful expectation is that Pandora will leverage their distinctive radio chops/expertise and provide
a cut above the completion's "station" experience.
(personally that's not really such a high bar on any current service)
As for Pandora's success/future in the interactive realm, given their long/extensive history and present footprint in the music streaming space, I think their tea leaves spill out a skooge better than several of the other less funded/footprinted in this biz. Frankly, with Pandora's
81 million active users, I smell some significant upgrades to interactive paid as well as a considerable amount of defections from other services. Just a well-seasoned spitball ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Out of the gate, there will be new smell hoopla & free trials ala Apple Music launch. Whether they weather the storm 1-2 years from now is a coin toss. I mean, lest we forget, with just 3.5 million users, how the F is
Rhapsody Napster still around?
#gojunkyarddog
While Pandora is catching the IA train late...given the explosive growth now and to come in this arena,
it has not left the station. Wild evolutionary times have been had the past 16 years and deadly curves abound ahead. And while a healthy checkbook comes in handy, it's not the
only factor in this Darwinistic period.
After the nascent gymnastics settles and streaming scales to survivable subscription numbers for the big pocket beasts...
product quality will prevail.
#bookoutthewindow
Here's to the success & survival of multiple players & disrupters going forward.