Nine Inch Nails recently launched an iPhone app called nin:access- a sort of one stop shop for information about the band combined with a social network and music download service. After much whining by non-iPhone owning fans, the popular app is to be ported to Android and BlackBerry mobiles.
Nine Inch Nails frontman (and back and side man – the band is basically him + hired help) Trent Reznor is a self-confessed technology geek and Apple fan. Nine Inch Nails dallied with the iPhone last year by bringing out a custom version of the Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game, but nin:acess is a much more ambitious undertaking – an app that combines twitter-like social networking with fan forums, location-based services and music streaming. A free iTunes download, the app has been a huge hit with fans – at least, the ones with iPhones.
Last month, Reznor dismissed calls for a non-iPhone version of the app, saying, “Android is cool, but nobody has an Android phone. Blackberry is OK but the hardware is inconsistent and WinMo straight-up sucks balls.”
Ahem, quite.
Happily, Reznor has relented. Informing the world via Twitter (as is now compulsory) that Android & BlackBerry ports of the Nine Inch Nails app are coming soon “Android is coming right behind the BB version. Everybody please calm down – everything’s going to be OK.”
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