After the opening and initial success of Spotify's app offering, Sten Garmark, the company's director of platform, was quoted as saying: "We have to turn ourselves into the Operating System (OS) of music.”
On Music Think Tank, Kelland Drumgoole gives 3 reasons why he thinks Spotify may never be the OS of music. Do you agree or disagree?
“If Spotify is to ever to become the OS of Music, it must separate from Facebook or create a version that doesn’t require users to login via Facebook.”
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Disagree. I think a lot of it has to do with the musician ecosystem. We have to eat, and as long as iTunes pays us more than Spotify does, then iTunes will always be around. It's why Youtube, Amazon, and the App store is so powerful, because of the paid partner/affiliate program.
Posted by: Walt Ribeiro | 03/16/2012 at 09:32 AM
"as long as iTunes pays us more than Spotify does, then iTunes will always be around" Huh? As long as there are enough people paying for downloads to iTunes. That may well change over the next few years.
Posted by: Spotidj | 03/16/2012 at 10:09 AM
i also think that the number of people paying for downloads(mp3s) will decrease in the future
Posted by: Kelland Drumgoole | 03/16/2012 at 10:52 AM
If I'm a developer, I'm going to build apps that can generate money. If Spotify can't afford to pay the artists, how can they split revenue with developers? Until your OS can provide revenue sharing and other money making opportunities, I wouldn't expect too many people to build things on it.
Posted by: Earbits | 03/16/2012 at 04:21 PM
What does "the OS of music" even MEAN, though? It's AD COPY. It means nothing. There will never be an Operating System of music.
Posted by: Hump Jones | 03/16/2012 at 11:14 PM
Agreed, it's a silly buzzword. I don't like the idea of it as well. No single company/service should be at the center of all music. Eff that.
Posted by: Tone | 03/17/2012 at 04:34 PM