Spotify has become the latest developer to put its weight behind a universal Windows 10 app. That, after the company pulled off a scare earlier today in saying goodbye to Windows Phone.
The company suddenly decided to remove support for Microsoft’s current mobile operating system, confirming that its application no longer supports Windows Phone — leaving these users with no option if they wanted to receive updates for the Spotify client.
This is the message they posted earlier:
“We can confirm Windows Phone 8.x is no longer supported. You can still use our Spotify application on the associated devices but it will no longer receive any further updates and download the application. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
But Spotify quickly followed this up with
a statement that the idea is to make Spotify better for devices that have already upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile, both the stable and preview builds of the upcoming mobile OS.
Here it is:
“Our main goal at Spotify is to offer the best music experience on the market, covering all platforms. To clarify our recent information regarding the Windows Phone experience, we will continue supporting the Windows Phone 8.1 experience moving forward and we are actually improving our support for Windows 10 in our coming update 5.2, which will be available starting today.”
So basically, the plans have not changed, and the company is still committed to the platform. And that earlier statement was very much misinformed.
Even better, the focus has shifted to Windows 10 Mobile.
In fact, there are
reports that the version 5.2 update for the Spotify client has already gone live, and although a changelog has not been provided, this new version is supposed to work better on newer Windows 10 Mobile devices like the Lumia 950 and 950 XL.
source:windows10update
