Last week the online music service Spotify announced that it would be granting developers access to its music library by way of an app framework. In theory, now anyone can create an app that uses all of the songs that Spotify currently offers. For perhaps the first time in the history of digital music developers can focus on actually developing new digital music business models, not on surviving negotiations with every single record label. In its way, this might be one of the biggest things to happen to the music industry since the introduction of iTunes.




