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Spotify hasn’t let new Premium subscribers pay for service using in-app purchases via Apple’s App Store since May 2016 — objecting to the tech giant’s “tax” on purchases made through ...
Spotify did not include the in-app link in the update submitted to Apple. Spotify said it does not want to be a part of Apple's entitlement as it is a new set of anti-steering restrictions and ...
Unlike Spotify, Apple Music does not offer a free version of its service. Each of its monthly plans offers ad-free listening, Spatial Audio, lossless audio, exclusive artist interviews, access to ...
Two days later, Apple responded, stating that the claim was misleading rhetoric and that Spotify wanted benefits of a free app without being a free app. Spotify responded with a statement calling Apple a monopolist and stated that they had only filed the complaint as Apple's actions hurt competition and consumers and clearly violated the law.
Approximately a year later, Recode reported that Spotify's general counsel Horacio Gutierrez had sent a letter to Apple's then-general counsel Bruce Sewell, saying that the company was "causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers" because it wouldn't approve an update to the Spotify app. Apple hadn't approved the new version due to ...
Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
Spotify and its CEO Daniel Ek want Apple to drop the commission fee it charges the group when customers buy a subscription through the App Store.
iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max originally shipped with iOS 15. They received the iOS 16 update, which was released on September 12, 2022, and iOS 17, which was released on September 18, 2023. [36] The Qi2 wireless charging standard has been added to the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max with the update to iOS 17.2. [37]