I’m wondering as a Sirius customer, and a stock holder, does the management of Sirius really understand their customers? I am thinking the answer there is no. No one I know wants to hear freaking DJ’s babble on about their wedding DJ business, or how they can’t find the right man. That’s what terrestrial radio is for, and sirius is in the process of turning sattelite radio into exactly that, how long before we hear “be the 72nd caller and win a Sirius suprise pack”…

They could have turned this into a win win for everyone…

I tried to give the iPhone app another go, but in typical fashion they throw a wrench in the works… Thats all I want is to have to tell a stupid app I want to continue listening…

As far a the omission of howard goes, I think Macenstein nailed it on the head, basically says it is howard’s fault, and since howard said nothing about the app on Thursday’s show I tend to agree, I wonder if there will be any mention on Monday…

P.S. Would somebody at SIRIUS freaking FIRE Richard Blade…. I am so tired of hearing about his freaking DJ business , save it for FM you DORK….

So after listening to Howard, and the wrapup show, and no mention of the sirius iPhone app whatsoever…
Now go back about 6 months when the starplayr app was in beta, and the excitement from Howard and how great it would be for Sirius bla bla huge potential for more subscribers bla bla…
So what is the change…
Was it Howard’s greed getting in the way…
If I could only stomach O&A…

Downloaded the iphone app today, and added premium service to my account, only to find out Sirius’s definition of “Everything” does not include howard….

So here’s the list of leaving my iPhone in the near future… Every app on my iPhone goes to the death page awaiting execution, to date no app has been granted a pardon….

StarPlayr
Okay I can’t let go of this one, it was so totally awesome, I can only hope that whatever Sirius comes up with is half as good as this.

ASCII art shop lite
I’ve been meaning to purge this one for a while, has some ok image processing, but nothing that compelled me to pay for the full version, or keep this one.

HearPlanet
Ok I really don’t need to have wikipedia pages read to me, when I read some of the initial reviews, HearPlanet sounded pretty cool. In reality I’ll pass, the speach is ok but not great, then the removal of all images takes more away…

GoodFood
Since there is a lot of entries that I found that have been closed for years. I think I’m just going to stick with urbanspoon.

Chop Sushi
Not that impressed, controls are funky, even for my 12 year old son.

Rochambeau
Annoying annoying music, controls don’t really work, and did I mention the annoying music. It’s rock paper sissors… Not something I desire to online.

LieDetector
I did several recordings like they say to do, then I lied to it told the truth lied again told the truth, and essentially had the same results.

Masters
It’s over so why keep it, besides I’m not that into golf, mainly wanted to see how they handled their implementation.

XRayFX Lite
Ok it’s a cute novelty app, but that’s about it. Good for a couple of pranks at the bar.

TwitterFon
Twitterrific
Not feeling the whole, twitter thing…
Don’t need to know that much about anyone. Now that oprah and eric the ack acktor are twittering, I’m sure this fad is doomed.

I remember back in the good old days, mergers usually resulted in a better company, and you took the BEST of both companies and kicked butt, by eliminating all the deadwood.

It seems that the rocket scientists over at SirusXM, have figured out how to screw that up beyond all recognition. First thing they did wrong is get rid of all the XM music programming, and keep the crappy redundant Sirius programming, seems like it is almost on a loop. Then they kept the crappy DJ’s (Here’s a hint cut the DJ’s and save money), if I want talk I’ll listen to Howard, and listening to Richard Blade’s wedding DJ gigs is getting old, kind sound like a commercial to me on a commercial free station…

So now comes the next blow, the apparent death of uSirius Starplayr, which looks like it officially ends the same day that you have to start paying for the Sirius internet feed in addition to your regular subscription. There is very little info coming out of the starplayr camp, but one rumor is that it is over the the apparent death of the iPhone app, and I am guessing a change to how things authenticate etc… There are rumors of a forthcoming SiriusXM iPhone app from SiriusXM, and that is the reason that uSirius Starplayr has not been approved. I have not seen anything regarding Rogue Amoeba’s Pulsar, but I’m willing to bet it is history as well…

uSirius StarPlayr, has/had a great interface, and is/was pretty rock solid form the start, and it will be missed. I can only hope that whatever the genius’s at SiriusXM come up with is half as good.

So now we come to Sirius stock SIRI, and yes I am an owner of this mess called a stock, and have a cost basis I think in the $2.70 range or about 20 time more then it is worth today.

I can only hope that the vast majority of Mel Karmazin, Scott Greentstein and the other rocket scientists running the show over there at Sirius is in stock , but I couldn’t find anything current… They’ll probably get a bazillion shares @ $0.14 and some how get it back to a dollar and be good to go for life…

So in closing, thanks Todd, Jason and the other guys, you did some pretty cool stuff, and I hope you had fun doing it…

Good luck…