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Good deal for Pandora, but I think they'll still lose users. Pandora One is $36/yr. Under this payment plan, they pretty much get most of their users that they

by vaksel 17y ago

Good deal for Pandora, but I think they'll still lose users. Pandora One is $36/yr. Under this payment plan, they pretty much get most of their users that they'll keep onto a $12/yr plan. Because 40 hours of radio is nothing. But since most people hate paying, even if its $.99/mo, I think that'll cost them a ton of users. A free alternative will spring up quickly enough. Good opportunity for pirate bay here, Pirate Radio

Batsu 17y ago
I'm curious how those hours stack up as well - you could burn through that pretty quick in almost any office on a static IP.
- vaksel 17y ago
  for me, I'd go over the limit in 3 days. I have Pandora pretty much running non-stop in the background
  - ckinnan 17y ago
    me too. the ads and one hour time limits are increasingly annoying-- I'm going to the full subscription for $36 a year. totally totally worth it.
maneesh 17y ago
Yea, but the article mentions that only 10% of people already go over 40 hours. The most they'll lose because of this is 10%...and it honestly won't be that high.
dcurtis 17y ago
Pandora isn't really about the music. It's about the song selection engine, which is amazing. Pirate radio could never come close.
- vaksel 17y ago
  surely they could use all of those users to build something similar?
- dmix 17y ago
  >Pirate radio could never come close. On hackernews, I believe that's a challenge.