Let’s be honest, most of us figured that the only reason Apple hadn’t rejected it for the App Store yet was that they were still climbing the ladder into orbit, all the better to drop the hammer.
Still, we’re happy to be wrong. This time, anyway.
We’ve been playing with it for a while, thanks to our friends over at TechRadar, but all of us with iPhones or iPods immediately rushed over to grab a copy as soon as it went live. As for the others, they just looked jealous. But that’s normal. Our phone is best.
It’s a fantastic application, with only one drawback – as good as anyone could ever hope for, given the lack of background applications on the iPhone. Pick a tune, it starts playing. Switch off the iPhone, it keeps going. Only if you tap the menu button does it cut off, and even then, only until you reload Spotify, at which point it resumes instantly.
The only downside is the price. On the one hand, £10 a month isn’t a lot to ask – you need a Premium account to even log in. On the other, it’s expensive compared to the free-but-with-adverts of regular Spotify, especially given that there’s no discount for subscribing for a full year instead of going monthly.
(Technically, I have another problem – although it’s not really Spotify’s fault. My music knowledge is pathetic, so I never have any idea what to search for. Neither the desktop client nor the new mobile one has much in the way of discovery features, especially compared to something like Pandora. Me, I’d kill for someone to do a similar service for comedy and audiobooks… but at current prices, I don’t see that happening any time soon. Never mind. As long as you own more CDs than I do – which is about five – you should be fine.)
Download the client now from the iTunes store. There’s an Android version available too, but none of us own one of those at the moment. If you do, let us know how you find it. It should be pretty similar though.
