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| not surprised I'm not surprised that they approved it. They pretty much approve anything these days. It's easier to censor to one satellite service, than 2.
Let's say you're listening to a song on satellite radio, and then you decide to "acquire" that song/cd. How is that competing? It doesn't. Saying that it competes with mp3 players is a poor excuse.
Satellite radio is a premium service. National radio with no commercials, or very little of it. It's free radio vs paid radio. Free radio is free, and is local only. Paid radio is commercial free (or nearly that), and works nationwide. Why else does XM, and Sirius have the same price? They're competing! But look at the hardware. It either works on XM, or Sirius. So they're using that weakness to say that they're not competing.
As of 2006, XM is doing better financially. They have higher revenue, and are losing less money. Sirius, while catching up to XM (perhaps because of the slowing growth), have lower revenue, and are bleeding losses. Even a combined company won't solve everything. They're gonna have to raise prices, eventually. People would just pay the service quietly, and not say anything. I mean, it's commercial free, it's nationwide, and it has the shows they listen to.
Combining both companies wouldn't help solve the company's problems. They'll probably still be losing money. If they let you pick which stations you'll get, what's going to happen is that people would choose that over picking the default package (pay the full price), which would lower the profits, which will result in higher prices in the long term.
This merger is like GameStop buying EB. I knew it was bad. Yet, the company claimed that they're competing with stores like Best Buy, and Wal-mart. It's specialty store vs regular stores, that won't have the same selection. Those that want the greater selection would have no choice, but to go with that one store.
I've noticed that people are for this XM-Sirius merger, because they have one, or both of the services, and it's more convenient for them. If we didn't base decisions on wants in the short term, our decisions would likely be for what's actually better for us, in the long term. | |
 P NessYou'Ve Forgotten 9-11 AlreadyPremium
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way way out | "Those that want the greater selection would have no choice"
good thing you can get 100x more selection from sources like internet, mp3, itunes, slacker, radio, cd's, etc or you would be very pissed that they approved this merger huh?
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| said by P Ness:"Those that want the greater selection would have no choice" good thing you can get 100x more selection from sources like internet, mp3, itunes, slacker, radio, cd's, etc or you would be very pissed that they approved this merger huh? You misunderstood when I said this. I was talking about GameStop/EB. If you listen to satellite radio, then buy the cd because you like the music, that's not competing with satellite radio. GameStop/EB is like the XM-Sirius. | | |
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P NessYou'Ve Forgotten 9-11 AlreadyPremium
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way way out | said by pepperxn:said by P Ness:"Those that want the greater selection would have no choice" good thing you can get 100x more selection from sources like internet, mp3, itunes, slacker, radio, cd's, etc or you would be very pissed that they approved this merger huh? You misunderstood when I said this. I was talking about GameStop/EB. If you listen to satellite radio, then buy the cd because you like the music, that's not competing with satellite radio. GameStop/EB is like the XM-Sirius. wait, your ability to get content/or products from other sources does not make it competition?
Huh?
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