I have had enough of Sirius XM, and I started the purge today, by shutting off the first of my radios, and will continue to drop the other 3 as they approach renewal, with the last being the one in my truck which expires 2/1/2011.

I am thoroughly convinced these guys running Sirius have no clue on what is going around them. I don’t think they understand how much they industry has changed in the past few years, or how much it will change in the coming years. They need to get away for the hardware, something they do badly, and concentrate on the content. All the cross promotion needs to go away, I could care less what’s on the elvis channel, and I could care even less about what Richard Blade did last night or what pathetic mundane problem is ruining Madison’s life today, shut up and play music.

I bought Sirius for one thing and one thing only, Howard Stern… I was perfectly happy with what XM was playing in my  truck on the way to and from work, and when I got to work I wanted to listen to Howard, but even Howard is starting to bore me, it almost seems formulaic, all the spontaneity seems going,  and I am even more pissed when it appears that Howard killed  the availability of 100 and 101 from the iPhone app, he claims to be a company guy, yeah right… I feel that Howard will continue broadcasting, but not on Sirius, but some other method of delivery, and thats where I’ll probably end up…

The other thing is where are all the cost savings, the converged content, the improved capabilities that were promised from the merger, look at all the new hardware, it all appears to be XM branded, only working on XM, and you have to add the Best of sirius…

Going forward I am going to start taking the money I would have spent on Sirius, and continue to grow my iTunes Library, so that in a year I’ll have what I want to listen to when I want to listen to it without being annoyed by silly top 40 radio tactics…

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…

Sorry been busy, way behind, but this from OrbitCast has been bouncing around my brain for the past couple weeks…

Mel Karmazin forfeits 30 million in stock options

Lets see Mel had 30 Million options valued at $4.72 a share, SIRI is now trading at 34 Cents a share. As I understand it (from past option transactions) Mel has given up the right to purchase more  stock, for $4.38 more then its current value, how generous can you get…

Is this some lame ass PR move to make it look like Mel cares…. The official story from the 8-K filing “Mr. Karmazin’s choice to forfeit these options will allow us to more efficiently use the shares authorized under the Plan to meet the Plan’s purpose to attract, motivate and retain key employees.”  Maybe Mel is one of those “Key” employees that Sirius wants to retain, now if he gets a bunch of these options back at 40 cents after any waiting period required by the I am going to be pissed….

Yes I own SIRI, it is pain full…

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.