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Spotify, or Get Off the Pot…Seriously

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"The British are coming! The British are coming!"

Not that it technically changes anything, but Spotify is Swedish.

Also, saying "Dog and Bone" anywhere outside of London will get you laughed at. I'm presuming this is mostly the case in London too. Cockney rhyming slang != British, and no - we don't all use it.

Spotify is awesome, so much so that even though their recent restrictions were a little upsetting - I decided I love the service too much, and started paying. Two months in and I'm still very happy with it. If you sign-in from a mobile device the 7 day trial extends to 30 days, so you can make your own choice with plenty of time too.

Is it a little annoying they don't have everything on there, sure... but it's a damn good service. And for everything else, you still have your old methods.

I'm sorry you guys across the pond haven't got to try it yet, but the tech blogs are excited about this one for a reason.

I used a Norwegian friend's Spotify account for a bit, and I'm now using rdio. I don't see any significant difference between them, other than the client, which ... eh? Rdio works in my web browser, and it works on my phone. That's pretty much all I care about.

The only advantage an actual app could have is responding to my hardware play/pause/next buttons, I think.

Dear Music Industry,

Please get on board with a service we want to use and do it quickly. In fact - get on board with several.

PS might help piracy a bit if you did.

And please, to all of the digital music news sources out there, don’t you have anything better to write about than the upcoming, then delayed, then upcoming, then delayed arrival of a service that, by the time it gets here will have so many restrictions on it that most Americans are going to laugh at it’s failure to differentiate itself from products that have been here for years?

There's irony, and then there's this...

Spotify for the US certainly has been "in the works" for, well, forever.

But coming from a would-be competitor, this piece only comes across as cranky trash-talk.

Curious to see if Spotify will do as well as in Scandinavia.

We don't really consider ourselves a competitor. They're an on-demand service that gives you an ad-supported and limited free experience until you pay a monthly fee, at which time they're a very comprehensive on-demand service. There are other services that they compete with here who have yet to really gain big market share.

We are ad-free, streaming radio focused on music discovery and creating a connection between fans and the bands we showcase. Most Americans use more than one music service to serve different needs.

It was definitely meant to get a reaction, but mostly I am just bored with the "Spotify is coming according to some secret source" journalism that has been coming out every week for about 8 months now. If they're really that close, they'd put out an official statement. Leaking the same boring news every week is just getting old.

I was reading this and wondering why he is so pissed off. Then I saw his "signature".

Still, worthless read.

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