The problem for companies like Pandora is twofold: On the one hand they have their security concept they are agreeing upon with their licensers. This usually means they are not willing to give away API access into things not under their control (at least through contracts). On the other hand _everybody_ wants to work with Pandora. If they allow thousands (and we are definitely talking thousands) of companies access to their APIs they'll need resources to support it. For example, whenever they make a change they'll have to make sure it's also implemented by all these companies correctly because otherwise they've got pissed customers and it's their customers as well as the partners' customers.
Spotify used to have a more relaxed attitude to a certain degree when they were still growing and then they released their libspotify which kind of encapsulated their API and held their support effort low. But let's be clear: the Spotify plugin is a specific exception and it's also tolerated, not officially supported by Spotify! --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98698 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
