Spotify’s much-hyped streaming-music service has been given the green light by Apple’s iPhone app approval board, according to a report from U.K.’s Paid Content. Though the Spotify app has yet to officially surface in the iTunes App Store, an Apple spokesman made it clear that the app would be available “very soon.”
While the news is sure to excite Spotify’s current user base in Europe and the U.K., music fans in the U.S. have yet to experience what all the fuss is about, since the service is currently blocked on this side of the pond. Rumors abound that Spotify plans to open its doors to America before the year is though, but until then, the availability of an iPhone app isn’t doing us much good.
Beyond fanning the flames of American curiosity over Spotify, news of the app’s approval demonstrates an intriguing change of tactics for Apple. …
Originally posted at MP3 Insider
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