Spotify, Your iPhone App has ruined my life and kidnapped my kids
July 31, 2009 by admin
Filed under Funny, iPhone Apps
We revealed this week that the Spotify iPhone App has just been submitted to iTunes and is being considered for general release, but it seems this process has taken too long for iPhone addict Steven Ramsey, from Scotland.
Single father Ramsey has claimed that the delay in getting the Spotify App to the market has resulted in a series of unfortunate events that started with him filing for bankruptcy having spent all his money on music. With no money left to pay for daily necessities his local government were forced to remove his three children from their family home and place them in foster care, or in his own words “kidnap” them.
“Music is my major passion in life and I can’t get enough of it. On a good day I was buying at least 20 albums from iTunes and all the money I was spending became too much to cope with. I wasn’t able to pay my mortgage for 4 months, and Susan, Anthony and Jason were suffering as a result” claimed Ramsey.
Since Spotify launched in 2006 it rapidly developed in to the entity it is today, and the iPhone app was the next progression of this. It would give app users access to free (almost!) music and this is the feature Ramsey claims could have stopped his children being taken in to custody.
Based in Edinburgh, the Ramsey family had enough money to cope until ‘iPhone Music Addiction’ struck. A professional Psychologist commented “multimedia addiction has become more popular in recent years, but an inability to prioritise his children above Roxy Music and Take That is certainly a new one on me thank god”.
Ramsey lamented his point by saying “I know it was no-ones fault but mine, but why has it taken so long for Spotify to get this app released. My children could have still been with me. Now I can barely afford to pay for food, let alone music”.
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omg this guy is the thickest guy on earth to care more for music than his kids. and as if he blamed spotify!!!
What a complete idiot
someone like this shouldn’t have children anyway.
Well, why don’t blame the damn copyright instead? Without it he could’ve legally downloaded all that music for no charge at all? Or wait, why not blame – let’s say – himself. I know he said that it was his own fault, but seriously – there’s help for all kinds of addictions, and it shouldn’t be that hard to realize that something’s wrong if you can’t pay your mortgage for four month. Go humanity!