richmo
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Yes, it was definitely sad to hear about Bob. Now there's someone who always seemed to have a black cloud hanging over him.
As much as Howard is saying he isn't, he's doing his negotiating with Sirius XM on the air. Personally, I hope he re-signs, but I don't want to hear the negotiating for the next 3 months. I wish he'd make a decision and move on, either way.
I do agree that if he leaves Sirius XM, it would be a huge blow to the company. My thinking is that if he goes, I'll probably drop my XM (with best of Sirius) subscription. I do enjoy listening to a baseball game now and then, or maybe a music channel, but at least 80% of my XM time is on 100 and 101. Would the rest be worth $12+ a month....in my mind, no. My yearly XM contract is up next month and I think I may go month to month until all this is sorted out. At a minimum, I'd drop the "best of Sirius" part and stick with regular XM.
I don't quite see where Howard is coming from with this new technology stuff. He talks about cars having SIM cards, etc. I'm guessing this may involve turning cars into mini-hotspots where you could then access the internet thru the car radio and probably giving passengers the ability to access the internet with a laptop. I assume the service would have to come thru one of the wireless carriers. The problem I see with this is there are no cars (?) that currently have this technology, so would this require us to buy a new car? Spending a couple hundred bucks for a Sirius installation was one thing (and now, of course, virtually all new cars have some kind of satellite radio built in), but now he's assuming cars would have this new technology in the short term, and they simply do not. I'm sure there would be a way to plug in some kind of adapter device(s) to accomplish the same thing, but plugging junk into the car is something I'd like to avoid. I guess we'll just have to see how this all shakes out....or maybe its just a negotiating ploy.
As much as Howard is saying he isn't, he's doing his negotiating with Sirius XM on the air. Personally, I hope he re-signs, but I don't want to hear the negotiating for the next 3 months. I wish he'd make a decision and move on, either way.
I do agree that if he leaves Sirius XM, it would be a huge blow to the company. My thinking is that if he goes, I'll probably drop my XM (with best of Sirius) subscription. I do enjoy listening to a baseball game now and then, or maybe a music channel, but at least 80% of my XM time is on 100 and 101. Would the rest be worth $12+ a month....in my mind, no. My yearly XM contract is up next month and I think I may go month to month until all this is sorted out. At a minimum, I'd drop the "best of Sirius" part and stick with regular XM.
I don't quite see where Howard is coming from with this new technology stuff. He talks about cars having SIM cards, etc. I'm guessing this may involve turning cars into mini-hotspots where you could then access the internet thru the car radio and probably giving passengers the ability to access the internet with a laptop. I assume the service would have to come thru one of the wireless carriers. The problem I see with this is there are no cars (?) that currently have this technology, so would this require us to buy a new car? Spending a couple hundred bucks for a Sirius installation was one thing (and now, of course, virtually all new cars have some kind of satellite radio built in), but now he's assuming cars would have this new technology in the short term, and they simply do not. I'm sure there would be a way to plug in some kind of adapter device(s) to accomplish the same thing, but plugging junk into the car is something I'd like to avoid. I guess we'll just have to see how this all shakes out....or maybe its just a negotiating ploy.
LOL.
But after hearing him speak- I wanted to take it back. 
