Spotify will work in Russia. About this newspaper “Vedomosti”, citing sources in the music industry. Spotify – a music service strimingovyh originally from Sweden. You can use it for free, but only on the computer at the same time users have to view ads. You can get rid of it by taking out a subscription cost from 10 to 17 dollars per month, depending on the country. Subscription also allows you to play music on any device and download tracks.
According to “Vedomosti”, the launch of the service in Russia will take place no later than the second quarter of 2014. At Spotify already has contracts with the three largest majors – Universal Music, Sony Musis and Warner Music. Sign separate agreements with them to work in Russia is not required.
A directory service of the Russian music will fill up through aggregators Orchard, Beleive and Rights Communications. With them running iTunes. The publication notes that the main partner of Spotify in Russia can become the MTS. In the company confirmed that they are considering an offer of Swedish service. The cost of a paid subscription for the domestic market has not been determined, but according to experts, it may be significantly lower than in the U.S. and Europe – the Russian people are famous for their dislike of paid content. A similar strategy for Russia and chose iTunes: if the United States the cost of one track is usually 99 cents, in Russia – 10-20 rubles.
By bringing its service to the market, the creators of Spotify positioned it as a convenient alternative to torrents with pirated content. Although over 5 years of Spotify has paid holders more than half a billion dollars, the service has been repeatedly criticized by the small record labels and artists. In their view, beginners and independent musicians get a penny from Spotify, while majors are getting huge royalties, and he himself runs away at a loss.
In July, Spotify has criticized Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and to protest deleted from the directory service of all his solo albums. However, critics doubted that New York did it only out of solidarity with the young artist – musician known to the public primarily through the records Radiohead, and his solo projects and collaborations with other artists interested in only a narrow category of listeners. Therefore, it is the same Spotify neraskruchenny rookie.
However, the popularity of Spotify users have such criticism does not affect. Service has one of the largest music libraries in it for more than 20 million tracks. Spotify has enjoyed nearly 25 million people, while paying a subscription-fifth of the people.
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Google accidentally showed Nexus 5. The device was seen in a promotional video dedicated to updating mobile OSes Android. Before each new release in the company’s traditional comic video shoot.
game’s story – always a great mascot Android, which is set in front of the headquarters of the company. Since the last update took almost a year for all this time, the network is not leaked any rumors of a new version of Android.
But at night September 4, 2013 on YouTube appeared another video: on the campus of Mountain View establish a new robot, and the employees of the company removed it on mobile phones. In the hands of one of them journalists, and have noticed a new smartphone. Although the gadget appears in the frame is literally a couple of seconds, technological publications have painted it in great detail.
The body is a great camera, which was not in previous versions of the device. The very same Nexus logo is exactly the same title that was used in the design of the Nexus 7 – it confirms that went up earlier rumors that the appearance of the new smartphone will be similar to Google release tablet.
reporters also spotted at the back of the shape of the logo LG, which alludes to the continued cooperation of Korean corporations and Google. This is despite the fact that the vice-president of LG Won Kim claimed that the company will not produce a new Nexus. After the news about the Nexus 5 spread over the network, Google closed the access to the promo, though copies can still be found in tehnobloga.
As for the updates Android, technical details of it not. We only know that his name this time gave a chocolate bar KitKat. To do this, Google has reached an agreement with the manufacturer of the product Nestle. It does not provide for cash payments – the corporation agreed that Google will call your OSes KitKat, Nestle will launch a special version of its chocolate with green Android robot on the package.
As the head of Nestle marketing Patrice Bull, he agreed to cooperate Google in just 1 hour, despite potentsilnuyu risk of non-traditional forms of advertising cooperation.
“Did I get fired – he joked. – But it’s worth it”.
Google traditionally refers to each new version of Android in honor of some sweets. Operating system has already been eclairs, donuts and ice cream, and the name of the latest to date version of the Jelly Bean means “chewing candy”.
The company said that initially wanted to call the new version of Key Lime Pie – “key lime pie”, but later changed their minds because of the fact that this dessert is known not for everyone. Released Android KitKat is not yet known.
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