CNN perks up for about five minutes today and realizes that satellite radios plus iPods are like chocolate and peanut butter. Sirius, which getting caned by XM, is pestering Steve Jobs to co-brand a satPod or whatever and apparently the analysts, who are one step ahead of CNN in all of this, are salivating at the prospect.
Again, as we saw with the iTunes phone—Apple has been surprisingly magnanimous of late, but that doesn’t mean they’ll play nice with every Joe who comes along with a content delivery method. A satellite iPod would cost much more than a standard iPod because Apple won’t like giving away music for “free,” bypassing the Music Store through sweet satellite programming. I love satellite radio—haven’t listened to FM in a year now—but just let this one go, guys. Perfect and sell a portable sat/FM/MP3 player and leave it at that.
Karmazin chases a Sirius dream [CNN/Money]
