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Spotify's Long-Awaited iPad App Debuts in App Store
By: Apple Team Date: April 2, 2013, 9:13 am
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Spotify's Long-Awaited iPad App Debuts in App
Store
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Streaming music service Spotify , which gained a loyalfollowing
in Europe before debuting in the United States last July , has
launched its highly-anticipated iPad app. The app arrives in the
form of a universal version of Spotify's free existing app ,
although like the iPhone version a Premium subscription is
required for mobile access after a brief trialperiod.
Today we’re extremely proud to present our native iPad app in
all its green-hued glory. Features include:
- Retina graphics for iPad - dazzling display, razor sharp
images, richer colors
- Even easier to browse and explore Spotify’s entire 18 million*
song catalogue
- New ‘Now Playing’ full-screen view with high-definition cover
art
- Search for playlists, users and music - all from the same view
- Check out what's hot and find trending playlists &
songsamongst your friends
- Inbox grouped by user for easy searching
- Gapless playback and crossfade
- AirPlay integration
Spotify Premium is available through the app as a free 48-hour
trial, with users able to extend the trial to 30 days by signing
up through Spotify'swebsite. Continued Premium service is priced
at $9.99 per month.
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Re: Spotify's Long-Awaited iPad App Debuts in App Store
By: Apple Team Date: April 2, 2013, 9:19 am
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Spotify plans to becomean on-demand TV
network
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Spotify: free music streamer, procrastinationenabler, and
soundtrack to household chores around the world may soon become
much much more. The service is reportedly toying with the idea
of offering original video content.
Spotify has proven to be wildly popular with over 15 million
people using the audio streaming service (though only a small
number shell out for the paid subscriptions, which is basically
what is keeping the company financially afloat). The company
sells ads on its free service, but the overall business model is
based on luring customers awayfrom the free service andinto paid
subscriptions (inAustralia, it’s $6.99 a month for ad-free
streaming, while it will set you back $11.99 a month to be able
to download music and listen offline across all your devices).
This modelhasn’t exactly proven to be lucrative.
But the company may soon have more to offer. According to a
report from BusinessInsider, Spotify is seeking partners to
create on-demand video contentthat would put it in direct
competition with the Netflixes and HBOs of theworld.
Millions of people have downloaded Spotify, so the company
already has a recognised platform with international reach that
would allow it to easily offer additional services and content.
In away, the company already is its own network.
A boon or bust for consumers?
As long as the company’s services remain easy to access across
devices, Spotify will just have to lure the right talent to
produce quality content.
US consumers have shown their willingness toshell out for
unedited, commercial-free video programing. That’s the plan that
HBO successfully implimented in the 1990s with hits like Oz and
The Sopranos(and continues to experiment with now), and what
streaming services like Netflix and Amazon are just now
beginning to flirt with.
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