If anyone from Pandora is reading this: * Form a partnership with Uber -- allow me to see venues with events happening on my uber map and allow me to click one button to buy a ride to the venue and a ticket at the same time! * For the love of god -- please update the Pandora Home Screen on the website app when listening to music so that the album art and the artist title are BIG and viewable from across the room! Loo…
My usability gripe: If the album that Pandora has tagged a song as belonging to isn't available digitally on Amazon, but the same song is digitally available on another album, link to that. Don't imply that itunes is the only way to get it without ordering a CD.
Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it amazing that nobody can seem to outcompete Ticketmaster. It can't really take $15 per ticket to serve up 5 webpages. Are the costs of entry really that high? It doesn't seem like selling tickets should be that hard. How can a simple middleman maintain such a massive profit margin for so long?
You aren't the customer. The venues/teams/promoters are.
^ This
Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which makes you part of Pandora's claim that they're the most used mobile app. Leaving a desktop computer streaming music on at work has nothing to do with mobile app usage.
It illustrates that music apps are likely to be in use for very long periods/proportions of time. maccard's comment was quite relevant; it's not at all unreasonable to read in "and other people might use pandora similarly to the way I use spotify".
It's obvious that music apps get used for a long period of time. That's why Pandora is one of the (if not the most like they claim) most used mobile apps in the world. Leaving Spotify on at work while you aren't there is not the reason why.
Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#64If anyone from Pandora is reading this: * Form a partnership with Uber -- allow me to see venues with events happening on my uber map and allow me to click one button to buy a ride to the venue and a ticket at the same time! * For the love of god -- please update the Pandora Home Screen on the website app when listening to music so that the album art and the artist title are BIG and viewable from across the room! Loo…
I use a bookmarklet to put that stuff in the title (and click the are you still listening button) you could do the same to fix the layout how you like it.
Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#65> The Pandora app is the single most-used mobile app in the world Can this possibly be true? More used than Apple/Google/Spotify music apps maybe, but Facebook? Google search seems hard to believe too? I mean 80m users, "many on their phone" when Facebook have put up 1b users in the same day and I'm pretty sure surpassed 50%+ mobile usage?
Perhaps they define usage based on time? It seems reasonable that users would spend 1b/80m = 13 times the amount of time listening to music than they do interacting with Facebook.
> Perhaps they define usage based on time?
That's a pretty shady thing to do.
Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#66Woah, I didn't realize how much $$$ Pandora had!
Last I heard they weren't even profitable yet.
Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#67Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps they define usage based on time? It seems reasonable that users would spend 1b/80m = 13 times the amount of time listening to music than they do interacting with Facebook.
> Perhaps they define usage based on time? That's a pretty shady thing to do.
You think that defining "most used" by "usage" is shady?
Re: Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
#69If anyone from Pandora is reading this: * Form a partnership with Uber -- allow me to see venues with events happening on my uber map and allow me to click one button to buy a ride to the venue and a ticket at the same time! * For the love of god -- please update the Pandora Home Screen on the website app when listening to music so that the album art and the artist title are BIG and viewable from across the room! Loo…
I use a bookmarklet to put that stuff in the title (and click the are you still listening button) you could do the same to fix the layout how you like it.
link to said bookmarklet?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your work computer's Spotify usage doesn't have anything to do with Pandora's claim about being the most used mobile app.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not. I think the connection that was being made is that, if you evaluate usage based purely on time, Pandora may have a ton of time in use. But, much (or at least some) of that time may be people who've left it to stream for hours after they've left.
I think Pandora stops if you leave the app playing for some hours without any interaction with the app. Most streaming services do that to save bandwidth.