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Spotify announces an announcement
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 22 November 2011
Spotify big cheese Daniel Ek and some “special guests” will take to a stage in New York next Wednesday to say some stuff, in particular about their “latest major development” and “a new direction for the company”. It’s being billed as a “global press conference”, leading many to speculate what kind of announcement would be relevant to Spot users in both North America and Europe.
Amongst the things speculators reckon might be announced: the addition of download sell-through in the US, and possible relaunch of the same in Europe; the addition of ticket or merchandise sell-through; some sort of mobile, or other tech firm or telco, partnership, that is somehow of interest globally; the introduction of other content types such as TV or film; improved personalised radio and playlist sharing; or confirmation that Ek is in fact the anti-Christ hell bent on screwing every artist who ever sang a note.
Or what about a Spotify smartphone? No, that’s what Facebook is planning, according to AllThingsD. Well, it’s planning a Facebook Phone, not a Spotify Phone. They’re in love, but not married. Yes, apparently Facebook is planning a special mobile handset with HTC that will have a reworked version of Android putting all things Facebook at the heart of the phone. Sounds terrible.
