Rhapsody App Lives on the iPhone

Real’s Rhapsody music service has done the unthinkable by bringing on-demand streaming music to iPhones in the United States. Unlike Pandora, Last.fm and Slacker Radio, which create streaming music stations based on genres or specific artists, Rhapsody lets you create a library of songs to stream over 3G or Wi-Fi. Apple approved the app, and it went live overnight, but more importantly, the $15 per month cost of a subscription is somehow enough to cover the high licensing fees required to stream music tracks on mobile phones here. The downside? You can’t listen to music offline, though you can pick songs you like and purchase them through iTunes. That had to have made Apple happy. [via Electronista]