Spotify to Release a Native iPad App
Pocket-lint recently got the scope from Spotify’s UK managing director, Chris Maples that the company is planning on launching a native iPad app soon. The app, according to Maples, is “a priority” and is “absolutely in the pipeline.”
This news comes on the heels of Spotify’s big apps launch announcement yesterday.
The music streaming company has added a new service to its media player, called “App Finder,” which incorporates additional ways to discover and listen to music from within the player.
In addition to all this big news, Maples told Pocket-lint that it plans on pushing forward with making its service available on as many platforms as possible. “Consumers make no differentiation between devices and we want our service to be available on any device that people want it on,” he said.
When the iPad app finally hits the App Store, it will be almost as big as Facebook for iPad was. Hopefully, the development team will take less time than the social networking site did to give iPad-users their own app.
Whether the iPad version will just be a bigger version of the iPhone app, or if Spotify will take advantage of the tablet’s larger screen to optimize user experience is yet to be seen. Personally, I think Slacker Radio’s iPad app has the best design of any streaming music app out there. Maybe Spotify will take a page from their competitor’s book.
[via Pocket-lint]