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Spotify on iPhone......
Posted by Otis J Watermelon on 27 August 2009 - 8:12pm.
Now that Apple have approved the spotify app will it make any of the Massive 1) Get an iPhone if they haven't yet got one and 2) Persuade any existing iPhone users to upgrade from Spotify Free to Spotify Premium?
I've got an iPhone and think £9.99 per month will be well worth it to listen to what I want when out and about and will probably curtail my music purchase habits as I'm not really that fussed about owning the physical product these days.
Thoughts?
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call me old fashioned if you will,
but 'no' and 'no' are bargepole's answers. absolutely no.
"call bargepole old fashioned"
surely?
Heh, heh!
Gotcha Jimmy!
Fairly recent iPhone owner
I think it's a great device, if not necessarily a great phone.
If I didn't have it already, this would certainly have tipped the balance for me.
I don't know about premium - I'd want to check the depth of coverage of spotify before adding that spend.
EDIT : now I have read the BBC news on it - I will need to buy Premium to be able to use it on the iPhone. Maybe.
I'd agree with that
Brilliant, unbelievably clever gadget. Lacklustre phone.
Thirded
I am actually disappointed with the phone aspect, and it is too chunky for me, not great in a jeans' pocket.
Also...I dropped it on gravel after a few weeks and it cracked the glass front. Luckily I had insurance (not the O2 £10pcm rip-off) but it was still a major pain and it makes me very nervous having it out and about and letting my kids handle it. And it was them that persuaded me to get it in first place...
Although some apps are fun (weather, shazam, maps I wouldn't miss them and overall I wish I'd stayed put with my old phone and got a notebook-with-dongle-thing instead.
If I have to pay £10pcm for Spotify app then I shan't be doing so.
if it becomes
available on Ipod Touch - i will buy one.
The Iphone is simply not as good as Blackberry for phone/email functions.
Like you, lemagician, I am growing ever less interested in the physical product.
My old vinyl aside, of course.
Ipod touch......
some of the reports are saying it is for iphone and ipod touch.
can you not access spotify via wifi
on your touch?
No chance for me
I got a new phone on a two-year contract last month. Thought about the iPhone but couldn't see anything about it worth the extra expense and got a Sony Ericsson instead which I hardly use.
Good job too because I would be tempted by this even though I know I would not really use it. If I was still spending 2+ hours a day commuting by train though - that would be another matter.
If...
...the Sennheisers that LOUDspeaker recommended to me make my iPod classic sound as good as they are supposed to, I may go for the iPhone.
I must add, that I am actually starting to miss the physical product side of things.
is it amazing how much we are all prepared for phones etc
to have an iphone and spotify will be about 440 plus quid a year on the cheaper o2 options. This is not a critisism i am just interested that 15-10 years ago people would have blanched at phone bill that was that a much a month.
15-20 years ago
it was more common to rent a telly and a VCR. You'd lay out about 15 pounds a month for that then, so a 20 quid a month for a device that I can watch full length films on, that can store thousands of songs, that I can point at the sky and can tell me what star I am looking at, that can tell me when the next train is due, make phone calls and - now - allows me to listen to a catalogue of pretty much any music I ever want to listen to whereever I find myself is pretty good value I'd say.
it's £40 quid a month though
and your paying off the flat screen probably(?)
What's that in physical music then?
3 albums? Still good value.
Will it work OK on 3G?
..or will it only be listenable on WiFi?
I have enough problems with drop-out on Spotify in the evenings that I'm already drifting back to trusty old Napster streaming. Their Automix feature is really quite good.
I can't see why not
I'm using my iPhone as a 3G internet dongle here at work and using it to access Spotify (which is blocked by our IT dept via our normal network). It's connected to 3g and not wifi and it's working just fine - I can't see why it would be any different in the phone.
I'll definitely be upgrading from free to premium - mainly for listening to at work and in the car. Plus it's 99kr a month over here in Sweden, which is about 7.50, so it's even cheaper.
Not until / unless...
I can stream Spotify to an Apple TV and control it via the iPhone. That would get me the complete Spotify library AND my own library and let me listen to it in the comfort of my lounge with good quality files (if I'm not mistaken the Premium version files are higher bitrate ?)
THEN...£9.99 a month seems exceptionally good value, although I suspect that part of me will always feel like I should OWN something that can't be taken away ! Mind you, I had qualms about digitising my collection as well - now it's just second nature.
I can't wait to get...
the Spotify app, but just read this on the Spotify blog,'Premium subscribers in the UK, Sweden, France, Spain, Norway and Finland will be able to download Spotify for free from the App Store soon'. So I'm wondering does this now mean that as an Irish subscriber I can't get it?!
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