All I can say is that if I ever get any more I will post about it, so just subscribe to my RSS feed so you’ll be alerted to the fact.

Best wishes,
David

I was just wondering if you have any invitations left as i cannot find any anywhere. And also i cannot comment on your other invite posts???

Thankyou, Dom.

Personally, I would prefer to not have any music on my PC. It takes hours to sync it to my iPhone whenever I restore (which is pretty often) and it’s a pain in the butt to manage. I have to figure out which directories to put it in, how to tag it, etc etc. I’d much rather have Spotify and get rid of all the music I’ve bought or downloaded. I know I’m not the only one, as many of my friends who have tried Spotify feel the same way. You can’t take it with you, so what’s the point of owning it?

Even if you think the price will remain £10/mo (or more) for the rest of your life, rather than decrease, like music industry experts even admit will likely happen soon (see TechCrunch articles on this), that’s still a lot less than many people spend on music. At £10/mo, you can buy 1-2 albums/mo. That’s 24 max/yr, or 960-2000 over the course of your life, depending on how many years you have left. I know lots of people that have >100,000 tracks. They’re already way over that lifetime amount. Spotify has millions of tracks and could potentially have almost every piece of music available. Why limit yourself to just the stuff you can physically hold onto? That’s last-century thinking, friend.

Making an argument that the mobile app isn’t a “sufficent added value” is failing to consider other people’s lives or needs. Many people spend more time away from a compouter than they do at it. Whether they’re commuting to work, at work and not permitted to run external software programs (iTunes and the like), exercising, walking, whatever. All of these are cases where I’d love to have the mobile app and would be happy to pay the $10/mo (which it would likely be if it ever makes it to the US) for it. Can you give me an alternative that lets me listen to whatever I want without having to already own a copy and costs less?
Lastly, the argument that they should provide the app for free in order to “expand their advertising audience” isn’t logical, in my opinion. If you have an iPhone (I don’t know much about Android phones) then you have to have a computer with which to sync it. How would advertising in the app “expand the audience” then? It might allow for additional advertising time/opportunity, but not a wider audience. In addition, you’re not considering the fact that Spotify barely makes anything with advertising and that they have to pay exorbitant fees to the record companies. Unlike those companies, who have always treated their customers with contempt and disregard, Spotify deserves our support in my opinion, and I for one will be glad to count myself among the 10% that subscribe if it ever comes here (otherwise, I may have to look into signing up for a UK paypal and paying in pounds!).