http://gigaom.com/2011/10/27/limewire-grapevine-subscription-service/ Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/10/27/limewire-grapevine-subscription-service/#comment-682300 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:00:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=428630#comment-682300 http://t.co/2YaFu9ua How LimeWire’s Grapevine tried to compete with Spotify – GigaOm

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]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/27/limewire-grapevine-subscription-service/#comment-668856 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:09:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=428630#comment-668856 Humorous. “The best damn music service ever” quote comes from LimeWire’s former head product guy… Reports are that he was excitable, and had been around music for a while, but really had no clue as to which way the wind was blowing… And the developers working on spoon thought it was just another also-ran suffering from the same anti-user limitations that Spotify, it’s not surprising it got killed. Limewire needed to convert something like 90% of their network over to paying customers in order to make the labels happy. Really unlikely. It’s a shame.

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