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[Rankhar]

The article on The Verge is being picked up by others now as well:

Androidcommunity

Phandroid

Ubergizmo

Gottabemobile

[Flakes]

Great work guys. I hope that will give them a little kick in the arse.

[Fluffe]

Indeed.

I think people understand you can't promise things that may not happen and make people more upset, but the wall of silence about anything atall android save this recent comment, was just terrible customer relations.

Still cancelled till something actually happens, but I shall keep an eye on it while trying out Deezer or w/e.

[Calibrae]

Well, the only answers we have right now from spotify are:

- We "accidently" hit the reply button too hard
- Wipe your app, data, throw your phone, buy another one and spotify will work.

Until I get 320kbds sync, gapless playback, auto resume, and a SMOOTH running client, I am not satisfied.
Good job with the blogs and newsites tho, I'm pretty sure it will shake things up.

[Spyke]

If anyone at Spotify is thinking "There, that's what happens when we don't stick to our policy of giving out no information. Now we have to deal with media speculation, raised hopes, and increasing negative publicity, and we've nothing to show for it yet.", that's not the point.

The point is that an updated Android app should have been ready within weeks if not days of the ICS launch last November.

[Calibrae]

Considering there're at least twice as many android phones activated everyday than iOS phones, the update should have been ready before iOS' !

and btw, even with iOS, they got a few more feats, a pretty stable client, but it runs scaled on iPads.. Looks very ugly on my girlfriend iPad 2, should look even uglier on iPad 3.

[SteveBrammer]

The problem that Spotify, and many other start-ups that develop for both iOS and Android, have is that regardless of user distribution iOS still carries more influence among investors and the press than Android does. You can bet that famous Spotify investors such as Sean Parker and Aston Kutcher both use iPhones and not Android. Spotify and other start-ups are more preoccupied with pleasing these types of people and having them say nice things about their product to the press than they are about their general user-base.

This is all very well and maybe even prudent when you are a start-up, but Spotify are getting past that phase and hopefully will start responding more to what their users want rather than trying to be media darlings in order to get exposure and investment money.

[Rankhar]

Yeah, agreed. As I said in the other topic, it mystifies me how a company that has mobile music at the heart of its business model, can fail to update its app for mobile music on one of the biggest mobile platforms. I really, really don't get that. 

[Spyke]

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Rankhar wrote:

Yeah, agreed. As I said in the other topic, it mystifies me how a company that has mobile music at the heart of its business model, can fail to update its app for mobile music on one of the biggest mobile platforms. I really, really don't get that. 

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"One of"?

The biggest mobile platform globally, by some margin.

[Rankhar]

I stand corrected :)