The Spotify App was approved by Apple today, which was interesting as many claimed this would be the downfall of iTunes. Even more interesting, rather than the anticipated excitement, it appears to be a mix of feelings: whilst people are pleased that the application's been approved, they're more apathetic about paying the £9.99 monthly fee (£119.88 a year) that entitles them to listed to a massive music library.

Spotify owners suspect that the application's approval will mean a rise in subscribers, which will bring the company revenue not only that from record labels which it currently gets, but from music hungry app-toting iPhone users.

Usefully, the app allows users to save playlists to their phones for times when there is no connection. This is great because now iPod Touch users can leap on the app bandwagon - without this it's only any good when there's wifi. In both cases, it'll allows users to use it on the tube, making the app more usable all round.

This isn't the first of Spotify's good developments: yesterday Spotify also made lovely leaps and bounds as it made available as one-click system for users to share playlists through Twitter, replacing a previously laborious process. That is to say, it involved at least two clicks.

It's all very interesting considering that Apple have been accused of being anti-competitive and bias in app rejection, such as the on-going questions around the rejection of rival company app Google Voice. Maybe they are in fact nice after all - just in time for their Tablet launch next month and Christmas.

Spotify for iPhone should be available in America next year.