Spotify. The elusive European streaming music startup that you just can’t get access to in the U.S., unless you know someone or jump through a few hoops.
The U.S. launch has been delayed over aggressive negotiations with the labels over the price users will pay in the U.S. Spotify insists on free, the labels want to move away from that model entirely.
We’ve heard that a compromise has been reached. Spotify will be free for users, but a “very limited” number of people will be able to use it.
Much more interesting, though, are the conversations with Google that we’ve confirmed. The two companies sketched out a plan where Spotify’s excellent Android application would be build into the 2.1 version of Android and would launch in the U.S. with the Google Nexus One phone on January 5.
More: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/google-spotify-launch-android-nexus-one/
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The U.S. launch has been delayed over aggressive negotiations with the labels over the price users will pay in the U.S. Spotify insists on free, the labels want to move away from that model entirely.
We’ve heard that a compromise has been reached. Spotify will be free for users, but a “very limited” number of people will be able to use it.
Much more interesting, though, are the conversations with Google that we’ve confirmed. The two companies sketched out a plan where Spotify’s excellent Android application would be build into the 2.1 version of Android and would launch in the U.S. with the Google Nexus One phone on January 5.
More: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/google-spotify-launch-android-nexus-one/
