The extraordinary net radio service Pandora has made an announcement called “Pandora Everywhere”, has partnered with Sprint to deliver a mobile version of Pandora. So Pandora Everywhere is only available in the US and only on sprint phones? That sucks balls. Theoretically Pandora is just a flash app so there is no reason that it shouldn’t just work using the regular n95 browser, except when I go there I get a nice message saying come back with a sprint phone. I wonder if Pandora is going to squander a some of the amazing goodwill it’s built up over the last year by making it’s service available free on the web. My question is why would such a universally appealing application tie itself to a US carrier with such limited reach?
Pandora “everywhere”… Only In The US and Only On Sprint
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The fact that they are only available within the us, excuse me for my foul language, sucks. I once received a mail from them that people from outside the U.S. actually weren’t allowed to sign up because a U.S. postal code was required. Since this postal code is of no use, accept to check if you really live in the U.S., you just use a postal code of any company in the U.S.. Now they leave out the rest of the world (unless you use a proxy), and they miss a great potential.
Heck, the music industry over here also is a pain in the ass because they have a big influence on what happens online.
I’m pretty sure that legally they are restricted to the US due to copyright/RIAA crap.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/02/pandora-to-shut-out-non-us-users-thursday-evening/