Apple

[Grieve]

Spotify has radio too. It is actually better since you can just pick a specific song you like and it will generate a random playlist based off it.

I installed it for the first time this week, mostly because my free Pandora quota for the month is already up. It's not bad! I'll probably switch between the two.

Netflix, unlike Pandora, is at least creating original content. And I assume that universal streaming licenses are not super easy to just obtain. If apple (or whoever) decides they want to be the new Netflix they are going to have to have something up their sleeve other than "we're apple, everyone will just flock to us", since Netflix is pretty standard these days.

Amazon is creating original content too - in fact they already have far more of their own stuff than Netflix does. I haven't watched any of it, though, so can't say how good or bad it is.

Netflix still has something to prove on that front as well. I'm watching House of Cards, and it's excellent stuff. But I also watched the first two episodes of Hemlock Grove, and it's pretty ropey.

If anything, Pandora is a lot like apple - a company who had an original idea long ago and are just trying to fuck the cash cow of popularity and name recognition in the hopes that noone will notice the superior alternatives.

I refuse to feed the troll.