Rhapsody brings subscription music to the iPhone, pending Apple's approval

If the maniacs at RealNetworks have their way, you'll soon be rockin' out to Rhapsody on your iPhone or iPod touch, streaming all those pop tunes you crave over WiFi, Edge, or 3G, courtesy of your $15 Rhapsody ToGo account -- pending approval from Apple, of course. Sure, we can't imagine the company allowing Pandora but dissing Rhapsody, but stranger things have happened. If this isn't enough to get subscription music fans spinning in their office chairs, the company is also working diligently on Rhapsody for other mobile platforms and carrier app stores, including Google Android. And there's more! Check out the app in all its glory -- on video, no less -- after the break.

[Via PC World]

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[MikeZ Posted Aug 24th 2009 1:28PM]

RealNetworks is still around?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2009 2:20PM]

I'm sure this same comment has been made time and time again... but I'll just make it anyway.

I don't understand, from a legal perspective, how the App Store is any different than Windows, and how the iPhone is any different than a PC in terms of the user/owner's right to choose their software... Microsoft has been successfully sued up the you know what for being anti-competitive and proprietary. It makes no sense whatsoever that Apple gets to keep this monkey show going. It should be my right to put whatever software I want on my device.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2009 5:58AM]

It doesn't work like that. The important aspect of this is that Apple only has about 10% of the smartphone market so there are plenty of other devices that you can choose.

[Hydra Posted Aug 24th 2009 5:44PM]

Instantly denied

[DirtyVegas Posted Aug 24th 2009 6:28PM]

>> you can't create a playlist of exact songs, or play an entire album.

Features I don't need. I pay nothing, I discover new music. What part of "Pandora works for me" don't you understand?

[tomsomething Posted Aug 24th 2009 8:28PM]

Would you please PLEASE stop citing the Ninjawords denial when you talk about Apple's approval process? Ninjawords uses Wiktionary, and Wiktionary has some wildly inappropriate definitions and example sentences. No company in their right mind would want to align themselves with that.

[DreaB Posted Aug 26th 2009 3:20PM]

This is sort of like how Napster was when I was in college. I used to LOVE it!!