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Re:Spotify launches in the US by anti on Thursday July 14, 2011 @08:42AM (#2762740)
Guess there could be some uses for a web app, but the desktop app is just so much better than any flash/html5 app. Haven't touched itunes after spotify.
Re:Spotify launches in the US by revorad on Thursday July 14, 2011 @08:52AM (#2762771)
I use thesixtyone, earbits, grooveshark, last.fm in the browser and I have no trouble at all. The thing with music apps is that I just choose a playlist/station, hit play and forget. The UI doesn't even matter beyond that.
Re:Spotify launches in the US by mzl on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @02:28AM (#2811024)
For a lot of people with that use-case the UI might not matter, but it is not the only use case for a streaming service. From http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/ one can see that almost 40% of tracks played are chosen actively as opposed to just continuing on to the next track.
Re:Spotify launches in the US by mattgreenrocks on Thursday July 14, 2011 @08:46AM (#2762753)
The Windows version seems to wish it was iTunes.

Other than that, its quite responsive.