July 27, 2009
Wired U.S. Exclusive: Hands-On with the Spotify iPhone App
Spotify is set to take America by storm, and the streaming music service could soon do the same to the iPhone platform — but only if Apple approves Spotify’s iPhone app, which shows real potential to threaten iTunes on Apple’s own iPhone platform. Wired reports.
This slick app grants instant access to over six million on-demand tracks and your customized Spotify playlists, and it sounds great even on planes, subways, and other places where you can’t get a decent cell signal thanks to an offline playback feature.
Spotify is currently only available in Europe but the company plans to roll out in America by the end of the year.
“It’s going to be very interesting to see if Apple lets this through or sees us as competition — fingers crossed,” explained Spotify communications manager Jim Butcher. It certainly won’t help that unlike some other apps, Spotify’s does not include “buy” links to the iTunes music store. However, Apple would could take a percentage of Spotify’s iPhone-related revenue, and might not care what people use to listen to music, so long as they keep buying Apple hardware to play it on.
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