Like most people we thought Apple would try and find a way to not approve the app given its potential effect of sales of downloadable songs from the iTunes store.
However, the Spotify iPhone app is available for download from the Apple store today.
As Spotify is a European service it is not available to users outside of Europe and it is only useable by Premium Spotify account holders i.e. those who pay the £9.99 per month
Spotify has apparently submitted an iPhone app to the Apple iTunes App Store for approval.
If approved iPhone users will gain access to the Swedish streaming company’s library of millions of free songs.
Although seen as an iTunes killer by some, many in the music industry see Spotify as a more palatable alternative to piracy.
The Spotify iPhone app has a music search feature and will allow users both to stream music to their iPhone and to download it.
You can select a playlist for offline listening. The Spotify app will then sync the playlist to your iPhone.
As an iPhone user who lives in an area of very poor coverage the ability to download a playlist to my iPhone is a great boon. Given the poor 3G cover in the UK by O2 this app will find many willing UK fans. Spotify already has a million UK users and this will increase that number rapidly.
If you make any changes to a playlist on your iPhone the app will automatically synced the changes to your online web account.
The only potential fly in the ointment is the rumour that the app will only be made available to Spotify’s premium users - who pay £9.99 a month for an advert-free service. But we will see shortly, if Apple approves the app.
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