Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, knows what direction he wants his company to take in the smartphone industry, and isn't afraid to say it. Chris Snyder at Wired reports Westergren stating at the 2009 AlwaysOn OnMedia conference in New York:
“As a company we’re always thinking what’s the next iPhone? And that’s where we’re gonna put our resources. So we’ve come out and said, we’re gonna put a bet on Palm Pre,”
He also states Pandora has had more success on the iPhone than on all it's other 50 different handsets combined. In fact, Pandora Radio is one of the top iPhone apps ever; mobclix ranks them as the #1 music app on the iPhone. However, with the current recession, recent layoffs and in-stream advertising it introduced in its free services, it seems the Pre is coming at just the right time for them. Precentral reported from the Palm Pre keynote that Pandora is making huge strides already on their WebOS version, taking a mere 3 days to get their app running on the Pre; great news for other would-be developers.
Pandora has been eyeing the Pre for a while now. Back in January, Palm Infocenter interviewed Tom Conrad, the CTO of Pandora, who was one of the few who got to see the innards of the Pre. Tom mentions how the fact that webOS is so web-friendly will really assist developers. He also describes his hopes that the Pre will support Flash to allow for better gaming on the go.
When you think about an email application, or the contacts application, or something like Google Maps or Pandora – I think all of these classes of applications are really going to be fantastic to build and deliver on webOS.
Read the full Wired article here:
The January interview with Tom Conrad can be found here:
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