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Will iTunes Continue to Thrive in the iRadio Age?

How much longer will keeping your own music library be relevant in the age of streaming media?

By Eric Bleeker, austin smith, and Chris Hill – Jun 15, 2013 at 1:00PM EST

With the unveiling of Apple's (AAPL +1.18%) iRadio at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this week, many immediately began speculating on how big of a competitive threat this new streaming music service would be to services such as Pandora (P +0.00%). In this clip from this week's Motley Fool Weekly Tech Review, Fool analyst Eric Bleeker talks with host Chris Hill and analyst Austin Smith about the differences between iRadio and Pandora, what Apple would have to do to unseat the current king of streaming radio, and whether the growing trend of listening to streaming music will make keeping a collection of music on iTunes irrelevant and outmoded.

The relevant video segment can be found between 5:15 and 9:39.

Eric Bleeker, CFA joined The Motley Fool at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. For the next four years he led the Fool's Tech & Telecom sector, both writing articles and providing feedback and ideas to writers. Today, Eric is the General Manager of Fool.com, but still enjoys writing a tech article or two from time to time. Follow @bleekertech

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