Spotify is working on an iPad app, and the highly-anticipated release is on the near horizon. According to Spotify UK managing director Chris Maples, the company is making its official iPad app “a priority” and it is “absolutely in the pipeline.”
Spotify is already available on most devices, and the iPad will be a welcomed companion to the service’s iPhone app.
In an interview with Pocket-lint, UK MD Chris Maples said:
“We launched recently on Virgin Media’s TiVo platform and our fundamental philosophy is anytime, anywhere,” he said. “Consumers make no differentiation between devices and we want our service to be available on any device that people want it on.
Maples hinted that Spotify is considering making its own hardware, but that idea is nothing more than a possible option that the company is considering.
“At the moment we’re absolutely not a manufacturing business but if consumers demand something cool that we should create ourselves and we think we could do it better than anyone else, who knows?”
Spotify has opened its API to third-party developers for integrating its streaming service in other apps, and the company is committed to keeping its service open. This doesn’t mean that Spotify plans to go the route of Android with thousands of worthless clones polluting its brand value, however. Maples noted that, “We’ve launched with services that are naturally intuitive to our business and work seamlessly hand in hand.”
Like Apple, if you’re going to work with Spotify, you better have a nice app. Hopefully the company’s own iPad app will set the bar high.
Update: Spotify’s PR department got in contact with us to clarify that the company has no plans to enter hardware production.
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15 responses to “The Official Spotify iPad App Is Coming Soon [Updated]”
Fantastic – Hope they integrate apps into it as well. Seems like it would be a perfect match for that.Â
Ultra easy, ultra mobile karaoke pad. Bring it on.
Hope the iPad app isn’t vaporware. MOG has been promising an iPad app for over a year and still nothing. I decided to switch over to Spotify not only because of the better selection, but because I was tired of MOG lying to all their customers about when an iPad app would be ready.
It Would be nice if AirPlay is supported
AirPlay
It should, since AirPlay is supported in the iPhone app. (but not the desktop app, natively anyways)Â
If you have an iPad, good for you! You have access to a ton of HD games and apps that will make use of the iPad’s graphic capabilities. Games like Infinity Blade and Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation (Read a review if you don’t know what it’s about http://www.sytcorx.blogspot.co…) make full use of the iPad’s power. Stunning visuals and gameplay tide in with the iPad’s complete controls and mobility make it the best gaming device for me. If you don’t have an iPad, buy one or buy an iPhone. It has good graphic potential also and could run Modern Combat 3 and CoD: Zombies.
It’s been over a month since Spotify made that press release. I don’t get how they can release an app for Windows Phone 7, an OS that almost no one uses, but not for the iPad, a device that has sold over 50Million devices.
I hope they bring out this native IPad app sooner rather than later. Rdio and MOG are nice but they just dont have the selection of music that Spotify does.