Yet in a sign of just how much competition the NextRadio feature will face, Sprint announced separately on Tuesday a bundle of streaming apps for Android phones, including music services like iHeartRadio, Spotify, Slacker and Shazam, as well as apps for watching television and movies.
However, prepaid services that bundle a package of apps for a specific audience are emerging.
MacHeist is offering a bundle of five Mac apps – including the possibility of getting two more free – for $19.99.
The update will also roll out a default "Silent Space", which will include its Silent Suite of apps for encrypted communication, along with the app store, plus "a bundle of pre-loaded privacy apps".
That product, developed with Canadian company Mobiroo, gives users a 14-day free trial of a selection of apps, and then users pay $4.99 each month as a flat fee for unlimited access to that bundle of apps (not unlike the feature Opera will roll out down the line).
There are now 30 million employees and other enterprise users on Google Apps, which is a bundle of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Video, and Google Sites.
A bundle of stinking rags and flesh".
It's a bundle of neuroses.
