According to paidContent.org, a website providing global coverage on the economics of digital content, Apple has approved the the Spotify music streaming application for iPhone and iPod touch.
paidContent.org quotes an Apple spokesperson.
"The current status as of right now is it’s been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on the app store very soon. We’ve been in constant communication working with the developer and have already notified Spotify that the app will be in the app store very soon."
The Apple spokesperson also referred paidContent.org to Apple’s recent FCC letter, in which it says "95 percent of applications are approved within 14 days of being submitted|, with each app reviewed by at least two reviewers in a team of over 40, though about 20 percent of new apps are "not approved as originally submitted."
On Friday last week, Apple sent out a long press release responding to questions raised by the Federal Communications Commission over Apple’s App Store and its application approval process, particularly the rejected Google Voice application for iPhone.
Many observers expected the Spotify application to suffer a similar fate, being a potential threat to iTunes music sales.
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