Apple Approves Spotify iPhone App Comments

This is not exactly approval. This will only work for premium subscribers to spotify for £10 a month. The whole point many people use Spotify because it offers free music streaming, better than a radio station. I would rather pay £10 a month for "eat as much as you like" music stores. Download to your hearts content.

£120 a year is not cheap just for streaming...

Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of Apple's tyranical dictatorship over app store submits!

Just checked it again, and no, telling Spotify Radio to play Pop music from the 00's still plays 95% oldies, and most of the other 5% isn't what I would call Pop music.

I don't find Spotify to be very worthwhile for free, let alone paying for it for my iPhone where thanks to O2's crappy network I spend most of my time with a GPRS connection, if that, and Spotify will be unuseable.

after Sep conference, apple will pull Sotify coz they will introduce streaming service etc...

thats the Apple way to go...

@AlmostDone: Taking your music with you offers a clear advantage over having to be next to a computer all the time to listen to music. I'm not yet sure whether it's worth £10 since I'm not as much of an audiophile as some, but I definitely don't think everything should be "free" (not in our lifetime anyway).

@interpleb said: "I don't find Spotify to be very worthwhile for free" :-|...

@the spokesperson in the article: stop sticking the f**king line "65,000 apps" into every f**king sentence and ad before I rip your f**king face off.

@Spotify: where's my S60 Spotify app? :(


P.S. Sorry, I get a bit intense sometimes...

@but only Spotify premium subscribers will be able to log-in.

I wonder how this apply's to Day Pass users, I'm not such a big fan of music that I could stomach paying £10 per month, but every now and again £1 for a day pass would work well. Very handy for say party's were I could put my Iphone into my B&W speaker dock.

@drdark

You don't have to be next to your computer all the time to listen to your music. There are plenty pay monthly subscriptions that allow you to DL music without any DRM. You can put this is onto any of your protable media devices. I agree music shouldn't all be free but as I say the alternative is much more attractive. Apple is the new evil of greed.

been using spotify for a while now and like it but seriosuly you'd think sliced bread had been reinvented.

not too bothered about the spotify app. just wish facebook would hurry up with the android app. i mean, even WM's got an official app.

To be honest, I still think the free version of Spotify is fantastic and that the paid version just wont have the legs people are expecting it to have.

However, I can't help but think that this is the future for film. If a massive back catalogue of films & video were available to stream or temporarily download; art house, classics, educational etc. through to Hollywood junk - then THIS would be worth a subscription and get my attention. 'Premium' members would have access to more current & brand new releases.

@AlmostDone: sorry, was speaking strictly "free" and "tied to PC" Spotify-wise. You are of course correct in regards DRM-less music purchases. That's mainly how I get my music these days as I'm not a big music collector/listener. I still think £9.99 is a little pricey in any case, but I can see myself giving it a go for one month just to see how well it performs.

@lifethroughalens: problem with movies is, there'll be a whole raft of companies stepping forward to DRM them up.

Can apps be approved but only for certain regions?

It'll be interesting to see whether it'll be approved for the US market when Spotify rolls out across the pond and (if) it becomes a huge success - potentially eating into Apple's iTunes revenue and hogging AT&T's bandwidth.