Apple Approves Spotify for iPhone : Six Million Songs in Your Pocket

Unless it can play music while you do other stuff, like the iPod app can do, it's not really making iTunes obsolete.<p>I find that really frustrating, with all the streaming radio apps.

I was pretty shocked that this was accepted, I've been a longtime spotify fan and assumed I would have to be getting an android to get it on mobile (I'll probably still get an android anyway)

John Gruber was claiming recently that the iPhone SDK didn't allow your own codecs:<p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/24/rhapsody" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/24/rhapsody</a><p>Was he mistaken, or has Spotify started streaming songs in a different format from their desktop app that uses Ogg Vorbis?

Really sucks that they don't seem to be able to get an guidance on whether there app will get through or not before they create it. I'd imagine building an app like this one would be a sizable task, even more so in Google voices case.

It might just be a mistake on apple's side. They have and will probably continue to revoke apps which have previously been accepted to the App Store.

I feel like Apple has big plans for iTunes, and isn't really worried about this. There's a reason they're building a $1B datacenter.

6 million songs...until you lock the phone or exit the app, deeming it almost useless. So that sucks.

I envy those in UK and Europe.

<i>In short, Apple has just approved an application which renders iTunes obsolete.</i><p>And this is why I can't wait until it shows up in the AppStore.<p>Edit: Except the "minor" point renkeky brings up.