Re:Spotify announces music app store - Spotify Platform
by earbitscom on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @03:29PM
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Facebook has hundreds of millions of users and no real barrier to entry. Spotify has 2.5M paying users. That's not enough to build a Turntable business off of.
Re:Spotify announces music app store - Spotify Platform
by untog on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @03:31PM
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No, but it's enough to throw together a proof of concept, or a quick hack, maybe a small app. Over time, Spotify becomes known as the music account to have on the net, both parties benefit.
I'm not saying it will definitely happen, but I can see it.
I'm sure people said the same about Facebook apps back when they first emerged. Being able to "music-ify" your app is pretty powerful- one of the reasons there are so few sites like turntable.fm out there is that each site has to license the music individually.
If you could just tap into a user's Spotify account then you bypass all that.