XM SkyDock App Ready For Download
The XM SkyDock App is ready for download on iTunes. SkyDock, which turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a virtual satellite radio receiver when docked, has been highly anticipated for some time. The new app represents the second official full satellite radio app for Sirius XM on iTunes. Apps for specific content have been produced in the past.
The company smartly calls the new app “XM SkyDock”. This should avoid customer confusion, and ensure that potential subscribers download the proper app when they are seeking out the great content offered by Sirius XM.
Satellite Radio subscribers hoping to get the most value and content should opt for the “Best of Sirius” on their subscription, thus enabling all that XM has to offer PLUS Howard Stern, and the NFL. With Baseball in the playoffs, and football ramping up, this is perhaps the best sports content solution available to consumers.
Interestingly, this app, combined with the many other apps and features represented on an iPhone could become a one stop fits all solution even for those with a factory installed satellite radio receiver in their car. No longer is your subscription tied to the dashboard, or a portable device that serves only one purpose.
The XM SkyDock app will not work without attaching a subscription to a SkyDock. SkyDocks are now available through various retailers such as TSS-Radio.
Spencer, I believe the change of focus to the consumer from the technical profile is the right one. While I’m very glad SkyDock has come along and I hope more consumer technology is still to come, there are some simple, obvious, and wonderful things about satellite radio the consumer hasn’t caught on to yet.
Altogether, too many people do not know SiriusXM isn’t just a radio in the conventional sense. SiriusXM is a ubiquitous, full spectrum broadcasting service that is available to them by simply turning on the radio and picking any of more 130 channels——no need for user names and passwords.
I believe the standard phrase for that is “user friendly.”
In addition to listening to when “The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bobbin Along”, I have found that sat. radio is the best small investor tool to come along since the personal computer. For me, satellite radio has not been an expense. Being in immediate contact with the market while traveling has been very profitable.
Recently, thanks to Sirius’ traffic and weather coverage, I got to avoid a 5 hour tie up on one of the interstate highways. Believe me, missing that event was worth the cost of two years subscription.
When I’m going to be amongst a lot of people, I wear SiriusXM shirts. Frequently, I’m asked about the service and the question are always basic. They do not know how wide the reach of sat. radio is. Happily, I have made subscribers of some of them.
So, let’s keep charging ahead with technology but let’s renew some emphasis on the plain folks who just want to turn on the radio and dial up or punch up their favorites on that big spectrum call SiriusXM.
As an aside, I find that with somekind of regularity, I listen to 20 stations. I would be curious to know how many stations other listeners tune in to.
James, the points you make sure hit home. The greatest potential of Sirius Xm is that it still is really an undiscovered medium that has such a wide range of offerings that puts in in a catagory of its own. I would guess that most people are not aware of what it is all about and what it offers. It’s reminds me when I owned & operated a garden center and I offered products that came in so many different shapes and sizes that it would make the customers head spin that they would put off the decision of a purchase due to the anxiety of maybe buying the wrong item. That’s where a good informed sales person is so valuable to help them to make the right purchase. This seems to be a real problem for Sat. Radio. It’s complexity of what it offers is what sets it apart but at the same time also creates anxiety for the consumer which I think scares them away from becoming a sub. This may sound like a trivial problem but I think it is a real, but short term problem. The longer Sirius Xm is out there I think the more people will discover all the great benefits it offers, but it will take time.
There is no doubt that this will help with adding subs and giving present subs another option and even more content if they were internet only.
I know a few people who either have IPhones or are going to get one soon and listen to Pandora on their computers, but have no option in the car because FM is just brutal and their MP3’s get boring, too much work & $ to keep content fresh.
This is definately the reason they are looking for to get the service in their car. Pandora is not in cars and if someone is going to put a receiver in their car, I doubt it would be anything but SiriusXM.
This is a good jump start to retail this holiday season, but would also like to see them come out with the Sirius SkyDock and then versions for the Google platform, unless this is a real partnership with Apple.
Spencer, I have a question I wonder if you can answer. With the new I-Phone appl & devices like the Sky Dock I’m wondering can anyone in any country that has internet access and a credit card become a subscriber or is their some issues that would impead them from becoming a sub?
IPhone/POD home dock must be in the works also.
Before there was television, the biggest source for entertainment and information was radio. It was great for many years, until it was gobbled up by a few massive corporations that couldn’t care less about its heritage, or the millions of listeners who loved it for its variety, deep playlists, and as the best way to be introduced to new music. Those days are over; traditional radio has been destroyed, and it is dying a miserable death. Having to listen to all the advertising was almost the death of me! Despite all of the alternatives that are out there – with more available practically every month – the only one that interest me is the one I fell in love with when I was 12 years old. I had my little radio that I assembled from a kit, and I would listen to it all night long. Radio was like an escape from the drudgery of the everyday world, like a friend you could depend on all the time. I liked it then, and I have always felt that radio was irreplaceable and incomparable. I still feel this way about it today. It has been around for 100 years, but it still, by its very nature, has the ability to offer the most spontaneous, diversfied and scintillating listening experience imaginable. I love not knowing what I am going to hear next, or the possibility that I may hear something I have never heard before. Radio is unique in this respect, and for this listener NOTHING else is as satisfying as listening to this century old invention.
Sirius/XM has the opportunity of a lifetime staring them right in the face. If they honor the tradition and heritage of radio, and make the effort to provide radio with deep playlists, imaginative programming and last but not least, a real commitment and compassion for their subscribers, then they will have a service that will make even the biggest skeptics stand up and take notice. Terrestrial radio has been destroyed, but that doesn’t mean that radio is obsolete or irrelevant; nothing could be farther from the truth. If Sirius/XM restores radio to even a reasonable facsimile of what it once was, then the subscribers will come. Radio is simple, convenient and easy. Push a button, and then listen. Now that’s what I’m talking about!
it would be nice for sirius to market all these new products this holiday season instead of us blog/tech geeks spreading the limited word
I just saw on Best Buys website, they are offering people a $20.00 price cut on the sky dock when they buy an Ipod touch. Promotions like this are what can spark subscriber sales. If I am buying a new ipod touch for myself or somenone else, the natural thing to do is look for a dock if they are a driver…Then, you want to think of having entertainment “out the box”, that is where SIRIUS XM fits in…No need to rip all your cd’s or download a bunch of songs….Download the app, install the dock, and you have unlimited entertainment. The ipod touch has been reduced in price also…So basically someone can buy a 3gb ipod touch and skydock for $299…
Combine this with the “rewards program”, you get between $75.00 and $100.00 debit card…with a 2 year membership, and this is a very affordable package…Almost makes the SkyDock “FREE”..
When is Sirius XM going to start to advertise on Tv like Apple does…Want live sports, live talk, live dj’s, There is an app for that!!! Get Howard, Oprah, Eminem,…lol…bring Elvis from the dead to advertise SIRIUS XM!!!
Based on their past performance, and their current performance, I would guess that the time they will advertise will be approximately, uh… sort of around…. roughly…. NEVER!
If it weren’t for these satellite radio blogs, I wouldn’t know about any of this. Why doesn’t Mel advertise these goodies?
best question!
WWD, SiriusXM would only be advertising old products.
Now, with SkyDock and going into Christmas you will see advertising.
I’m pleased to see that siri and cnbc are combined on a tv commercial emphasizing staying in touch with the markets with a satellite radio. Relative to my earlier post, sat. radio is a great tool for the small investor.
Now, going into Christmas, all stockholders need to put on their holiday shopping list who is going to get a sat. radio and subscription. I would suggest someone who is confined to home because of age or injury.
If every shareholder would gift a radio and sub. to someone for Christmas, it would give siriusxm a big boost toward getting over the critical one dollar pps.
You are going to be spending money for Christmas. It makes sense to do it with SiriusXM
That would certainly be a way to increase subs – no doubt about it! The demographic of older folks – the group of people television shows and society in general pretend not to exist at all, except for drug ads on TV and incontinence ads in AARP magazine – would be an untapped market for Sirius/XM to pursue. Siriusly Sinatra and Escape come to mind as channels that would have huge appeal to people who are a bit more “mature” if you will. These people don’t want to deal with all the i-pod/mp3/downloading bullshit that is all the rage among people for whom convenience is an alien concept. I’m no old geezer (no, you can’t see my drivers license), but even I love the idea of hitting one button… and having access to 130 channels. Our senior citizens would probably appreciate satellite radio more than we can imagine. When they hear the music that they loved years ago – music not available on terrestrial radio this side of our national elephant graveyard (Florida), they are going to pee their Depends and blow out all the circuits in their miracle ears! They will think that satellite radio is “the nuts.” For you embryos out there, that’s old school for “dope”, “sweet”, “bitchin”, “hella-cool”, or “the shit.” So listen Mel, since you’re no spring chicken yourself, how about the idea of satellite radio in the homes of all of your contemporaries? Forget the under 30 crowd and the teenagers – they don’t give a shit about radio, and besides, they want everything for free. The population in this country continues to get older year after year. These are the people who grew up with radio, many of them during its glory days. Radio as they knew it is dead; why don’t you (wake up Mel, I’m talking to you!) introduce the Golden Girls and The Sunshine Boys to what you have alleged, at least before the merger fiasco, is the “best radio on radio.” Most of us know that you reneged on that promise, but our radio deprived senior citizens would just love what remains of the Sirius/XM carcass that remains since the vulture programmers picked it clean. PS – 90 is the new 80!
oops…type…someone can buy 8gb ipod touch and skydock for about $299.00…No such thing as 3gb
look for advertisement in q4 for christmas when people blow money in a recession.
gabish
So this skydock, is it just a lighter mounted FM transmitter?
Abbeville
How about every Sirius investor buys a friend or family member the XM sjydock as a gift, if they own or are planning to buy an Iphone/Touch.
Products like the Skydock are “interim” products until such time that the owner of the Skydock buys a new car that has Sirius XM factory installed. Same deal with the plug and play radios sold in the past, but now only get marginal sales as most people have gone forward with a factory satrad radio in their new cars. I saw the same thing when FM radios first became available in the 60’s and people were installing aftermarket FM tuners. Same deal for CD players. They all ended up with a factory unit. The Skydock will serve the same purpose, but sales will max out within a year, but so what if they eventually get a factory satrad unit in their car and maybe a high quality Sirius XM for their home stereo.
Well where in the world is Boo Boo with all his gloom and doom predictions today????? I see the stock is back up to $.60 and not falling like chicken little keeps cheering about everytime SIRI goes down a couple points. Maybe he finally got kicked out of Mommies basement and had to get a job and McDonalds to pay for internet access.
Bob,
You really are retarded.
These are NOT good times for Sirius-XM and you know it.
0.5925 at close and going nowhere in after-hours trading.
The SkyDock is indicative of the poor management at Sirius-XM.
It is a lousy piece of hardware, just like every other piece of Sirius hardware.
Sirius-XM management are always a day late and a dollar short.
The reverse-split is coming despite Mel Karmazin’s protestations to the contrary.
Sirius-XM will never hit $1.00 without a reverse split.
When they finally do execute the split, the ride to the bottom will be swift and painful.
The delisting is inevitable.
How do you like your crow prepared Boo Boo? We just want to know when the stock hits a dollar without a split. 🙂
More nonsense from the feeble minded.
Sirius is dog of a stock and always will be.
It is also closer to 35 cents than it is to $1.00.
You’d be wise to remember that.
I would also not that NONE of your bullish “Predictions” regarding SIRI have come to pass.
Geez, I wonder why?
You may now return to contemplating the lint in your navel.
p.s. if you wish to continue this conversation get a sack and pm me on the forum so noone else has to listen to you idiotic comments.
I’ll continue to post here until such time as the OWNERS of this site no longer wish to see my posts.
If you don’t like my posts, don’t read them.
You don’t have a problem with not thinking so not reading should be easy for you.
SIRI on the rise today…..sorry boo boo….I know that just kills you.
SkyDock is FINALLY in the Apple Store online. Looks good. Finally Sirius XM has got a phenomenal compatible product for the 40,000,000+ iPhone and Ipod users to purchase and appreciate. Excellent news and development for the company!!!
Here is something interesting yet screwed up. How is it SiriusXM can put out an iphone app that allows you to listen to most of the stations on satellite, but XM can produce an iphone app that allows your to listen to ALL of their stations on satellite PLUS the BEST OF stations from sirius?
I am a huge howard stern fan and find it odd that you cannot listen to stern on the sirius app because of contract issues but somehow you can listen to him on XM’s app. I do not know what Mel was thinking when he took the two companies and so called MERGED them… they still act as if they are separate companies.