As if you needed another reason to covet the iPhone, in comes AOL Radio streaming unlimited music to the phone-with-a-thousand-uses. With the download of the AOL Radio App from the soon-to-be-opened App Store, iPhone users can stream the over 200 AOL radio stations. Thanks to a new partnership between CBS and AOL, users will also have access to all 150+ CBS terrestrial radio stations around the country. The application will even determine your location and stream the closest CBS station to you.
Of course, this technology will be ad driven, but it's a small price to pay for the vast variety of genres that this type of service brings. Directly competing with iTunes, it's an interesting issue Apple needs to consider when it comes to what applications can and cannot be created.
Can Apple really limit the technologies of the applications in the App Store without going under fire? There has already been a bit of an outcry over Apple possibly limiting GPS applications. In order for Apple to remain the good guy over companies like Microsoft, it's going to have to allow users to have a lot of freedom in what's built for the iPhone.
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