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Wait, what? I’m already surprised SiriusXM is still somehow around, let alone that they have $75 million to invest in another company and not that they’re taking $75 million to stay afloat...
SiriusXM has no competition in the satellite radio space as far as I know.
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The market cap of SirusXM is almost $32bn, roughly $5bn more than Spotify.
Wow. I know like every new car comes with a trial but I didn’t realize people actually activated it.
Sirius 2019: $7.8b in sales, $1.7b operating income
Spotify 2019: $6.7b in sales, -$73m operating income
Spotify's market cap is supported by a fantasy that one day, somehow, if they get big enough they might generate a real profit to support their Wile E. Coyote valuation (don't look down). So for example, if they get to $20 billion in sales (in another 10 years), maybe they'll spit off as much profit as Sirius does right now in exchange for a similar market cap.
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Wow. I know like every new car comes with a trial but I didn’t realize people actually activated it.
I have probably 6 or 7 paid subscriptions for my personal use. Aside from Netflix, SxM is probably the one I would cancel last of the group.
When I was a truck driver, Satellite Radio was practically a necessity. Sure I loaded up my ipod with music, but the selection was too damn limited and I would tire of hearing the same songs over & over again. The best case scenario for FM radio (when you would finally find something that you could tolerate) was 1 hour. 1 hour of variety to stave off bordem and try to save your sanity. The effective range of the FM s…
There was a period of time where, after work, some friends and I would get together in one of our university's research labs to solder keyboards. It was always empty by then. We'd put on soma.fm and then get to work. Good times.
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I have probably 6 or 7 paid subscriptions for my personal use. Aside from Netflix, SxM is probably the one I would cancel last of the group.
What are your use cases? 6 or 7 seems like a lot.
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What are your use cases? 6 or 7 seems like a lot.
Not the person you're asking, but it seems it's very easy to get to 6 or 7: Netflix, Prime, Hulu, HBO2Go, AppleTV+, Disney+, Spotify, SxM, etc
6 or 7 paid subs sounds reasonable.
WWOZ - New Orleans gold mine, especially 2 week audio archive
KCRW - live + curated streams
Cultura Brasil - a curated, updated stream of Brazilian music
BR Heimat - odd, but I find corny alpine brass bands a great working soundtrack
WKHR - a high school radio station in Cleveland where old people play 78rpm records