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Spotify music streaming service launched its own developer platform Spotify application and members of the media can use to build applications that run in the desktop application of the company.

The platform was announced at a press conference in New York, which had all the features of Apple and Facebook Piece Set speech, the chief executive Daniel Ek with describing the new the help of several collaborators.

Ek said Spotify applications provide features such as the best recommendations, ticketing and editorial content with the service, with the initial partners, including The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Songkick, Last.fm and TuneWiki.

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the Guardian, the album brings the comments of The Guardian and The Observer in the Spotify service, from the ratio of the two companies for a series of live concerts in London. You can read more about the application here.

"Today, we become a fully integrated platform," said Ek. "We are opening our platform in a way that allows applications to heal, and really make their own Spotify ... This is the beginning of something that changes the game for digital music. "

The new platform makes the rivalry between Apple iTunes and Spotify is even clearer with Spotify place your bid to become an open platform to compete with Facebook-style closed (by comparison) of the iTunes ecosystem .

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Spotify is the managing director, Chris Maples, told the Guardian that "We will not think about everything we do is compared to that of iTunes do that?" However, Daniel grew up in the digital world, like many people in the company. And the digital environment, it is about sharing and collaboration. "

applications will be sitting in the Spotify client desktop, but Ek said that if successful, the platform can be extended to mobile applications in the future. Applications will be available to users free and paid service, but for now, developers can not pay for them.

"We have much more in the works. But most of all I really expect to be surprised by the developers, "he said. "We believe we will offer exciting new applications in the platform Spotify."

no reference to a recent review of music streaming payments to artists for the event, but defended the business model of the company, in response to a question of whether payments for holders of music can become a great burden that more people use Spotify.

"For us, we believe that those adverse conditions in any form. We are very pleased with how our model works, "he said." We pay the vast majority of all income, and that's really what we want to move forward. "

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