I was a holdout against subscription music for a long time but the time has come (actually probably a year or 3 ago). I accidentally lost my 15,000 song collection and was pleasantly surprised that I could still listen to it with Match (in fact I liked that doing so did not take up any drive space). But I still pretty much ever listen to my iTunes collection, instead just call up (almost) anything on Spotify. Being able to access almost any track for the cost of an album per month beats the heck out of pay-per-track/album.<p>Will be interesting to see if iRadio (and some of Apple's other things) make it to Windows and Android. That's the only way to become Pandora-et. al. killers.
Since it comes for free with iTunes Match, I suppose I will cancel Pandora if this doesn't suck. But I don't have much faith in that... iTunes Match is barely serviceable IMHO, and I'm mainly paying for it as a cloud backup of my music.
Still think the Spotify model is a lot better in terms of sharing and finding new music people are listening too.. Seems like I still have to pay for my individual songs on iTunes, which I think is a dieing breed.
I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere yet, but on Apple's iRadio page, there are pictures of iPhones with colored edges.<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-radio/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-radio/</a>
Just tried it on the new iTunes for OSX and it kind of sucks. Great collection of Radio stations but you can't:
1. Save any stations as your favorites.
2. Quality of audio is below par
3. Station frequently looses signal and iTunes has to rebuffer.<p>I don't see it replacing Pandora yet.