Hasta La Gadget!

SiriusXM is offering its Platinum plan members a little something extra. It’s bundling Stitcher Premium into the service. Subscribers to both the $23 per month Platinum plan (which includes in-car and app listening) and the $11 per month app-only Streaming Platinum plan now can now use Stitcher Premium at no extra cost. The two-car, $35 per month Platinum VIP plan includes access as well. 

This is a decent perk for Platinum plan members, as Stitcher Premium costs $5 per month. It offers early access to certain podcasts as well as ad-free listening and more than 350 comedy albums. The Stitcher library now includes over 60,000 hours of podcast episodes, including some older ones that aren’t available elsewhere. The platform is home to Office Ladies, Freakonomics Radio, LeVar Burton Reads, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend and many other shows, including one from Quentin Tarantino.

It seems like this integration has been on the cards since SiriusXM bought Stitcher for $325 million in 2020, so if anything it’s a little surprising that it took this long. If you’re a SiriusXM Platinum plan member, you can download the Stitcher app and use your SXM streaming login credentials to access Stitcher Premium.

It’s not easy going from one ecosystem to another; a big part of it comes down to using an unfamiliar user interface. That is also true for smartphone users wanting to switch from an iPhone to an Android.

Millions of users have selected Launcher iOS 16 (50M downloads as of late), an Android “launcher” app that makes the user interface look like the newest iOS. Of course, it would smooth out some bumps going from Apple’s ecosystem to Android.

However, many people use this to have a consistent GUI (graphical user interface) within the Android ecosystem! That’s a good solution since going from a Samsung to a OnePlus device can yield some significant visual differences, and it could be nice to “feel at home” on any device.

We have not crossed that threshold, though, perhaps because we’re used to changing GUI all the time. Remember, this is a cosmetic change, and not all iOS functionalities or settings are reproduced. However, it’s good enough that many people use it daily, so if you’re having a hard time with Android’s UI, this might help.

App Turns Android Interface Into iOS 16 Clone: Massive Success

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