If you were hoping for Apple to report on the basis of a subscription music service for the iPhone and IPod Touch on Wednesday, as I crush your disappointment: the early morning, Rhapsody, authorized Apple for the iPhone, and it’s available in the ITunes Store.

This is the second such service is Apple approved, but the first, Spotify, not available in the United States. (Rhapsody application does not appear in search results just yet, but it is showing in ITunes.)

Rhapsody was a pioneer in subscription music, and I’m a big fan of the service, in 2005, it was the first to turn me to the thrill of chasing your whims and surfing at random among the genres that you can not do with per-download services such as ITunes.

In my last court late last year (due to the Sonos multi-room audio system), I could not find any significant gaps - In any case, there was too much music, including several versions of the novelty song “Kung Fu Fighting” than I could imagine - and there are some excellent mentoring and editorial work, especially for indie-rock.

IPhone App is quite simple: you can search for songs search for genres, and diagrams, rhinestones, and create queues and playlists. If you are a fan of Pandora, you’ll also appreciate the function of Rhapsody Radio, which creates individual station was built around specific artists and genres. As long as you have an active Wi-Fi or 3G-connection, the music should continue to play without interruption.

It’s free, but to use it, you need to Rhapsody To Go subscription, which costs $ 14.99 per month. This is not quite as good a deal as the Microsoft Zune Pass, which costs the same, and gives you 10 permanent MP3 downloads per month, but, of course, that the service requires the Zune, which means that it applies only in respect of approximately 1,1 per cent MP3-player market (according to statistics that Apple snarkily to include in his presentation of the medium) and zero mobile phones.

Apple, seems to have seen the light, as it is now allowing subscription-based music to come to the iPhone. This makes the 8GB phone for size is much less restrictive.