<story><title>SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/9/24/17895332/siriusxm-pandora-acquisition-music-streaming</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>Poor Pandora and their investors.  This is for about a quarter of what they were worth just 4 years ago.&lt;p&gt;Saddly this is almost all self inflicted.&lt;p&gt;While Spotify, Apple music and Google music really worked hard to get people to actually pay for the service Pandora continued to act like it was a VC backed company in hyper growth mode long after that was the case.&lt;p&gt;They fought with the record labels longer than most of their competitors did to their own determent and they didn&amp;#x27;t end up getting any concessions for their extra effort.&lt;p&gt;And when everyone else was letting you select any music you wanted in playlist, they insisted on staying radio style only.</text></comment>
<story><title>SiriusXM buys Pandora for $3.5 billion</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/9/24/17895332/siriusxm-pandora-acquisition-music-streaming</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wil421</author><text>Cancelling Sirus is always interesteing. I always say I don’t want to pay the $90 or however much for 6 months of access. No $50 is also too high. How about $30? Ok sure I’ll pay.&lt;p&gt;I think Sirus only makes money off the folks who forget to cancel after the promotional period. It’s like $20 a month and I’ve forgot to do it my self for a couple months.&lt;p&gt;Pandora always had the best selections on their radio channels. Spotify is not as good for random radio selections. I would never pay for Pandora after having so much music available on  Spotify or Apple Music.</text></comment>