If you’re thinking about buying an iPhone to listen to radio stations, you might want to think twice. The reason is that Apple appears to think it can deprive web users of Flash applications and Windows Media Player streams. Since most stations at this point are using Flash or WMP, that’s a large problem, and why I won’t be writing an App for now. This closed architecture forces programming aggregators to create standalone apps like iheartradio to listen to stations. You have to collect different apps, and then know which App to start to find the station or stream you want to hear.
The big winner of the iPhone is Google. The tight integration of Google Mail, Google Maps and Google Search makes the iPhone an incredibly powerful tool. Google has been pushing Android, it’s open cell phone operating system. If Apple doesn’t open up to programs like Flash and a WMP player, Google will eventaully clean their clock.
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