1. I'll believe the in-car wireless broadband when I see it. It may well spawn other devices/applications to cater to car-friendly applications (especially if Apple or MS or others make their players net-radio-friendly), but I don't see current web offerings appealing. Sirius and XM have a familiar product, and a growing listening base. It'll be interesting if in-car WiFi impacts in 2 years...5 years...ever.

On the other hand, I didn't renew my XM service because I hate ads, and their constant channel ID "promotions" are no different than ads on commercial radio - though at least not shouting. I never understood why they felt they had to sell their product to paid subscribers. They lost me for this.

Posted at 4:03PM on Jan 4th 2007 by roymond

2. As someone who has purchased a lot of Sirius stock, I have always been worried about the Internet becoming available in cars and that might hurt Sirius and XM. However, there are three things to keep in mind when thinking about it. One is that I can't even drive up and down the highway without hitting a dead spot and having my cellphone calls dropped so I doubt the internet service will be all that reliable. Secondly, Sirius has Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and lots of other exclusive content. You can get music from an IPod or from an online source like Shoutcast but you can't get everything Sirius has elsewhere. Thirdly, your average Joe is just now getting broadband Internet access at home. Only the true Internet geeks like me will have it their car over the next 3 or 4 years and even I can't really justify paying an extra $50 a month for that priviledge. All I would use it for would be to stream audio/video, check email, get GPS type information or to get real time traffic/weather conditions all of which you can do already or will be available soon from the satellite radio providers at a much less lower monthly fee.

Posted at 5:01PM on Jan 4th 2007 by Marc

3. I just subscribed to Sirius and love it. Personally if I had wireless Internet I'd be more likely to stream Sirius online than not listen at all. I can't see mobile Internet being all the interesting until they can get the price down to a reasonble level anyway. It just gets to be too much. Most of my Internet activity is at home or work. It's not like I am going to be tooling around town wishing I had Internet. With Sirius there is no config issues. It always works. Across the country. It'll be at least 10-15 years before you can say the same for Wi-Fi across the country.

Posted at 6:54PM on Jan 5th 2007 by splork

4. Certainly something to keep one's eye on, but I spend most of my day trying to GET AWAY from a comptuer that is over complicated and generally fouled up. After that major hurdle one might consider that since 12.99 for radio is cultural shock for many, 49.00 would be tantamount to plucking one's eye out.

Ain't going to happen. HD still has commericals, IPOD needs constant care and feeding, and computers are a pain.

Give me Sirius or give me nothing.

Posted at 2:26PM on Jan 9th 2007 by matt