Apple approves Spotify app

Not to sound dumb, but has anyone thought of the fact that when Spotify is released in the US, Apple will likely pull this from the app store like Google Voice saying that it alters the core program of the phone and confuses the user?

Love how they placed their App where the iPod icon originally was.

I'll stick with buying my music off the iTunes store / play.com cause I'm certainly not paying their ridiculous subscription prices!

I like Spotify, but £120/year for the premium version is approaching "rip off" territory.

People who spend that much on music are the kind of people that want to 'own' a copy of the music. And casual listeners who only buy a few albums a year at most aren't even going to consider spending that much.

In my opinion, not that exciting for several reasons:

1. Does not play in the background! - huge issue, not their fault I know but a MASSIVE disadvantage.

2. Quite expensive for what you get. Unlimited music is nice but I'd rather own my tracks.

3. Question mark as to whether this will work over 3G. My current phone really struggles to stream internet radio over 3G here in the UK and pauses to rebuffer the whole time which really ruins the experience. I'd be worried that it would be more of the same.

4. Just as a general matter I don't like the way Spotify works. It's great for listening to new tracks that you just heard about or things that come to mind but terrible when it comes to rediscovering old bands and albums. Looking through Coverflow kind of gives you an ability to do that in a vaguely sensible way. Spotify's playlist system is a very very poor second best solution imo.

I wouldn't waste my battery on it especially not for £119.98 per year they are taking the P*ss. better off going to FOPP and buy some CD's.

When he exited the app to turn the airplane mode off I thought he was going to play the song in the background I had my fingers crossed ;-(