Comments on: Music on Phone without a Player?

By: Dayna

Dayna — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:09:02 +0000

I love music

By: Venki Iyer

Venki Iyer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, my hypothesis, way back when in early ‘03, was that it seemed more useful (and doable) to be able to stream from my music collection, whereever it was, to my phone, rather than storing the same #@%$ all over again on the phone. Think Orb or Slingmedia, streaming to the phone, rather than having a disk built into the phone …

And yeah, I wouldn’t have minded selling out to moto either.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Interesting thoughts Venki. I agree SLing and Orb and Kinetic Tide would do well, but I wonder how big that market really is. I think these are more early adopter type of products

By: Venki Iyer

Venki Iyer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Om, you’re right - I don’t think Sling or Orb or KT ever had a long-term story, and of course Steve just put a spike thru all of them (mixing metaphors, here) with the mini.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think the reason people don’t report being comfortable with a phone/musicplayer combination is that most people simply aren’t happy with their mobile phone experience as it is. The majority of phones out there are not as intuitive to use as an iPod or any other music player really, so the response is “Don’t turn my music player into a crappy experience”. This, however, is a solvable problem, and will be solved by Apple and other companies once they release a proper integrated product.

I wrote a long article about where the iPod is going and published it last night. It can be found here.