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Symbian and Nokia goes for Spotify

By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial

Posted in Symbian, Spotify, Nokia on November 23, 2009 at 5:32 pm

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There might be a few happy Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung owners today with the news that one of our favourite music services in Spotify is now available for them.

This is a pretty big and important event for Spotify, which has to look at its mobile service as being key in its goal of making money. It’s already out for iPhone and Android, but Symbian has a much bigger market share and could mean many more will pay the £10 a month fee.

But will they?

A while ago, I was raving about Spotify as a service and was very much looking forward to seeing the music service on my iPhone, and believed that I would potentially pay the fee.

But I haven’t, and this is in common with a lot of people who really like the service, but weren’t prepared to spend money on it.

With me there is one big reason, and that is a failure of my phone rather than the service. I have an iPhone and the problem is that it only runs one application at the time, unless it’s iTunes.

This is a big problem.

Spotify is built towards music, and for me music is something I listen to while doing something else - such as browsing the internet.

Because of sandbox nature of the iPhone, I can’t do this. Which makes the app pointless because I’m always doing something with it, and going to another program cuts the music.

Apple knew it, and was why it allowed the app. 

So it’s not worth the money for me, because I will rarely use it. Sure, the £10 would cut the ads and give me better music quality, but I’m cheap. I won’t pay something regularly that I will rarely use.

Will it being on Nokia be a success?

It’s difficult to say, but as I mentioned many more people have these phones then they have iPhone or Android. What I am really worried about now when it comes to Spotify is its ability to make money, and whether enough people will be willing to pay the monthly charge.

I mean, there are lots of songs on Spotify now and that must mean money for the record companies. If Spotify doesn’t make this back then I don’t know how it’s going to survive, and that would really suck - especially as I use it at home so often!

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