Spotify is a free music service, according to the statistics of IDG, Spotify have 10 million registered users, meantime, paid users on Spotify is up to 15%, other free products or services like Evernote the paid users are below 5%,Skype is only slightly higher than the 5%.
Spotify has so many paying users, the trick is “emotional connection”, When the user connected to his friends, he can explore friend’s playlist, and then Spotify become music libraries for music sharing between friends. when users want to connect the music library to Spotify in mobile device, he had to pay to upgrade to advanced users.
Spotify transmits audio files in the P2P way, it cached music files on user’s computer, so the server bandwidth is not high as imagined. Yet another problem is copyright, Spotify have to pay high royalties to allow playing the music songs from manufacturer.
Therefore, Spotify profits depend on that if the gains from paid customers can offset the expenditure arising from the free user (server costs, royalties).
In this article, we will look at how Windows Mobile phones use the built-in Windows Media Player
As a Windows Mobile handset built-in player, Windows Media Player take the audio and video playback tasks. steps to use wmp for windows mobile phone are below:
After we clicked on the Blue Earth icon, the system will automatically start the Pocket IE and visit the Windows Media Web site.
When we need to play a specific audio file in the Windows Mobile phone, the system will automatically start Windows Media Player for playback.
Of course we can to to Windows Media Player, and then open the file.
Click on the “menu” in the lower right corner of the screen and select “media library”, Enter the destination folder for storing music, Select a file you want to play, and then click it.
So how to add multiple files to a playlist in Windows Media Player? Click on the lower right corner of the screen “menu” and select “media library”, Then select “update media library”.
And then the system will automatically search for multimedia files in the Windows Mobile device
After the library update is completed you will be prompted, click “Finish”
At this time media files will appear in the media library in Windows Mobile device
You can click the forward back to switch songs, or you can click the “now playing”. on the bottom right corner during playback
At this point we can choose our favorite music, and then click on the “play”.
You can play a specific track, instead of just click the forward or back buttons.
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The BBC iPlayer, a superb catch-up and on-demand service, streams TV shows and radio to users across multiple platforms including mobile devices (iOS and Android), tablets, consoles (PS3), computers and televisions. One thing we’re aware of is that Microsoft and the BBC haven’t seen eye-to-eye with previous plans to bring the service to Xbox Live. The BBC pulled back from the proposed deal due to Microsoft wanting to limit access to Gold subscribers only.
Another platform we’re aware of that currently doesn’t feature an app for that is Windows Phone. A reader over at WMPU got in contact with the BBC and queried as to whether or not the broadcasting company has any plans for developing an app to bring the service to Windows Phone. Unfortunately, the reply was as expected – pretty bland:
“Thank you for contacting the BBC iPlayer Support Team.
I understand that you’d like to know if the BBC iPlayer service will be compatible with the Windows OS for mobile handsets.
We’re currently looking at many ways to expand and increase the services we offer however I’d be unable to confirm the present research into the compatibility with this OS. However your comments are most welcome as we’re driven by user reaction.”
So is there an official app in development? Most likely no, but there will surely be a spark to kick-start the process when a significant amount of WP7 owners begin requesting detail from the BBC or if Microsoft’s platform continues to grow in UK marketshare.
If you’d like to get in touch with the BBC about a potential app, feel free to contact them although we can’t be sure how much “user reaction” they require.
Via Wpcentral
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is planting seeds to whet the public’s appetites for its forthcoming tablet and it received some help from comScore this past week to heap on the hype.
The e-commerce giant is widely expected to launch a low-cost tablet computer based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system in October.
The expectation of another Android tablet is relegated to speculative drool from gadget blogs that love to hype the latest Android tablet as a potential challenger to Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) market-defining iPad.
Yet slow sales of Android “Honeycomb” tablets such as the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Toshiba Thrive have tempered enthusiasm for the casting of yet another fish into the increasingly crowded Android tablet sea.
But this is Amazon, whose brand and content ecosystem analysts from Forrester Research, Gartner and other researchers believe make the company the best potential challenger to the iPad. That’s assuming it actually delivers the tablet this year; Apple has sold roughly 30 million iPads to date.
Amazon moved to bolster its content credibility Aug. 18 by revealing that its Amazon Instant Video now offers more than 100,000 movies and TV shows, including 15,000 HD titles, for purchase or rental.
The titles, boosted by Amazon’s recent content licensing agreements with CBS and NBC Universal, include 9,000 movies and TV shows for no additional cost to Amazon Prime members, who pay $79 a year for unlimited, free two-day shaping.
Amazon Instant video users may access their content through PCs, Macs, or Google TV and other compatible devices, such as Android-based tablets.
eWEEK was able to watch Amazon Instant video content from a Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet after downloading Adobe Flash Player 10.2 from Google’s Android Market .
Ideally, an Amazon tablet will let consumers stream Instant Video, MP3 music and access Kindle e-reader content, rivaling the massive content provisions accessible via the 100,000 iPad applications residing in Apple’s iTunes App Store.
There are other reasons to feel confident in Amazon’s ability to provide a good Web content medium for its tablet. comScore said Amazon received more than 282 million visitors in June, equivalent to 20.4 percent of the worldwide Internet population.
Amazon attracted 35.4 percent of its audience from North America, while Europe contributed 31.8 percent of visitors and Asia Pacific accounted for 24.1 percent. Apple.com boasted strikingly similar breakdowns, with 32 percent of its visitors from North America, 29.6 percent from Europe and 24.9 percent in Asia.
Here’s an interesting hypothetical. If even 10 percent of those nearly 300 million visitors purchase an Amazon tablet later this year and through 2012, that would be 30 million tablets sold, or equal Apple’s iPad user base as it currently stands.
Assuming the iPad enjoys a strong holiday sales push this year, and that Apple launches the iPad 2 in early 2012 as rumored, the company might have 45 million tablets sold in 6 months. That would put Amazon’s Android tablet within striking distance of the iPad’s marketshare.
Of course, Amazon has to deliver a product these Internet users will want to purchase, so there are lot of mitigating factors to this scenario. But an Amazon tablet is almost certainly better off than Honeycomb tablets with fragmented content support systems. Via: Azadnegar
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