Spotify comes to the Iphone
FREE MUSIC app Spotify is coming to the Iphone, possibly threatening one of Apple's main revenue streams along the way.
Spotify, largely funded by ads between tracks, is already widely used outside the US for listening to free music legally. Apple, of course, charges for music through Itunes.
However, there's a catch. The Spotify client is usually free to download and free to use, however the Iphone version will be free to download but will require a Premium Spotify account to work.
Spotify has several account levels. The highest setting is £9.99 a month for access to an unlimited all-you-can-eat music feast, sans ads, streamed at 320kbps and higher.
Built into the application are some added niceties, such as off-line play lists, where tracks are downloaded to the handset for playback later.
We're also hearing Spotify has a Nokia client on the way, which will undoubtedly be a bother to Noki's paid-for service ‘Comes With Music'.
There's another catch too. Spotify is not available in the US right now so they won't be releasing the app there at all. µ
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Why Nokia, surely an android client would net them more cash?
free to download but payment for service?
i don't think so.
who knows the life cycle of these new p2p programs or legal services anyhow. i smell rats in this mixture.
so i'll stick with itunes where i can choose when to download, not worry about drm-riddled music and not worry about monthly payments.
spotify the unemployment line.
Jigsaw...got ur bits all mixed up...
Itunes is the DRM-riddled music you are not worrying about.
As for monthly payments.... if you download more than 3 tracks a month, Spotify is cheaper...
Spotify is great, lets just hope network providers dont block their IP.
Our "network guy" has blocked spotify from my work for unknown reasons, TYPICAL!.
Emm "I know" you do understand that 99%+ of iTunes music is DRM free.
there is a android version to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5whfaLH1-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALGPknOsiU
comming soon ;)
Didn't take them long to jump on the iphone band wagon did it considering their are more s60 handsets!
Spotify is the new way to have legal music! Since it started, it has exploded with users. There’s a 62 year old person in the office buzzing off Spotify and ranting about how rubbish iTunes is cause of the file types. He’s listening to 1920’s jazz and Beach Boys?! I think it'll be the iTunes team in the unemployment line, not the Spotify team. If they develop an app for Android, I’ll skip the iPhone altogether.