Rumor: Apple to Make Own Version of Pandora
Here's an interesting rumor to kick off your weekend: Apple is apparently working on a music service to rival Pandora.
We've been hearing the same Apple rumors for months: iPad Mini, iPhone 5, and Apple TV. However, it seems the Wall Street Journal is tossing some fresh meat on the barbeque with a new report that says Apple is working on a digital music service similar to Pandora.
The newspaper cites people familiar with the matter that say Cupertino is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service that would expand its dominance in digital beyond iTunes. One of the WSJ's sources says that Apple's service would run on the iPhone, iPad, Mac computers, and possibly PCs running Windows. Similar to iTunes, Android and devices running the mobile operating system would be left out in the cold.
Apple has proved it has what it takes in the digital music market with iTunes, which launched over ten years ago. While the company is apparently struggling to strike deals with cable and media companies for its rumored HDTV project, Apple might have an easier time talking to its iTunes partners about a service like this one. The Wall Street Journal's sources mentioned that this radio service would be ad supported (via Apple's own iAds) but ad-supported online radio is a tough nut to crack, and Pandora and Spotify have been on the scene for a while. The Wall Street Journal didn't mention any details regarding cost or subscriptions but we'll keep you posted.
Word on the street is that this service could launch within a few months. Check out the Wall Street Journal for the full scoop.

Also most bands stream their music for free now to curb piracy so I do not see the need for this OR Pandora and other services either for that matter.
Oh, and they're all Mac users. Coincidence? I think not. Apple will see good profits from this nonsense.
You, of course, are the only person on this earth who knows better. All of those tens of millions Apple/Pandora customers with high disposable incomes actually using & helping improve the services are just a bunch of idiot sheep who are all wrong. Right?
Also, Apple is clearly shaking in its boots as Pandora and Spotify are eating its lunch. At the end of the day, more competition = cheaper, better selection of streaming music for us!
But when you hear a song you don't like you cannot thumb down a song on live radio and move on to the next one like you can with a service like Pandora. I have a handful of Pandora stations that I absolutely love. Over the last 2 years I have been using it I have my stations playing all songs that I really like, and with adblock plus I don't even get commercials with it most of the time. Way better than any radio station I have ever heard.
Nah. It's just the iSheep who gobble anything Apple, it could be a turd named the iTurd and they would still pay premium
lol, ya, maybe they should made an addition to their set of websites. We could have:
Tom's Hardware: hardware reviews
Tom's Guide: for user guides and promoting broken or outdated download links
Tom's Style: for useless WTF articles that always have cool titles, but you always regret reading
Tom's IT Pro: For old IT guys to complain about products, and to push cloud technologies that real IT people either already know about, or simply don't care about. But they require you to post with real names to keep complaints down.
And then add:
Tom's Listener: For rumors
Tom's Commercials: For copy/paste product announcements and releases
In all seriousness though, Tom's is pretty good about not listing unfounded rumors. You should see the drivel and rumors some other sites are willing to post.
It's called marketing and customer loyalty. The reason why they are not changing to other products is because they are satisfied about what they have purchased. I'm sure you are loyal to Windows and are not committing to change to something else like Linux because of the wide amount of software and games that supports Windows compared to Linux; rather you'd upgrade XP to 7 rather than go from XP to Ubuntu. Apple products are viable competitive choices, you just assume because people buy Apple because most of them think they are cool or that Apple sues other companies so that they make crappy products. You can't say Android or Windows is better than iOS or Mac OS X because Apple made them, so therefore they suck, or claim that Android is more open and has widgets, therefore they beat Apple indefinitely. I wonder if you even have a mind of independence, seeing that you circlejerk about how crappy Apple is.
There is a reason why Apple hasn't gone full-scale nuclear patent and lawsuit war over Google.
I remember when MS approached the big network conglomerates trying to get licensing for streaming prime time TV shows. Apparently they came back to MS with a number that was something near two orders of magnitude higher than what they were hoping for.
I already hate iTunes, I don't know why they think anyone who's not already an iZealot would pay for streaming radio.
Not everything turns into Gold. The failures just will be forgotten.
Apple Newton
Apple USB Mouse
Copland OS
Macintosh Performa series
Macintosh Portable
Pippin
Power Mac G4 Cube
PowerBook Duo series
eWorld
All history.
Apple TV under construction since 2007 and still nothing...
and
Macintosh clones outlawed. Big mistake as it could have substantially increased their market share in the PC market.