Pandora is a closed API. They probably have some method of pushing to their official versions for android and iphone updates. And obviously, they probably release updates to their apps before actually updating site code.

The rest of us have to figure it out after the fact.

When you say 'all the other pandora apps' what are you talking about? The only ones I can think are the 'official' apps and thats because Pandora can fix them before they break them. Every single problem I've faced was also faced by pianobar and spbogie's XBMC modules. Pandora changes something which breaks us, and one of us (almost always pianobar's author) will reverse engineer the problem from pandora's own flash sources and put them into his code and the rest of wait until thats updated and fix our stuff.

Now.. I don't follow pianobar's source code every day even when I was maintaining this properly. So i waited until either my app stopped working, or one of you reported a bug, before going to pianobar and looking to see what he's changed/fixed and updating that one problem. But I don't comb through the whole source tree to see *all* changes (that's how things like thumbs up/down get broken sometimes because I missed it.)