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Spotify has become very vocal in recent weeks about Apple’s business practices for its App Store. Apple recently revamped its subscription policy for iOS developers, offering a 85/15 split if developers keep customers for more than a year, but Spotify is still not happy with proceedings.
In a letter to Washington seen by Recode, the company now says Apple is being anti-competitive by rejecting its latest update to the Spotify app in order to encourage sales of its own $9.99 Apple Music subscriptions. Spotify is making a lot of noise to suggest Apple is using illicit business practices to elevate the success of Apple Music, by crippling Spotify and other third-party services.
The letter surfacing follows comments by Senator Elizabeth Warren that attacked Apple for acting inappropriately in the music markets, pushing out other players like Spotify. It seems Spotify wants Apple to allow it to sell In-App Purchases outside of Apple’s sanctioned system, where the company takes a typical 30% revenue cut. The politician’s comments seem to have been inspired by the circulation of Spotify’s complaint.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/30/spotify-apple-music-competition/
In a letter to Washington seen by Recode, the company now says Apple is being anti-competitive by rejecting its latest update to the Spotify app in order to encourage sales of its own $9.99 Apple Music subscriptions. Spotify is making a lot of noise to suggest Apple is using illicit business practices to elevate the success of Apple Music, by crippling Spotify and other third-party services.
The letter surfacing follows comments by Senator Elizabeth Warren that attacked Apple for acting inappropriately in the music markets, pushing out other players like Spotify. It seems Spotify wants Apple to allow it to sell In-App Purchases outside of Apple’s sanctioned system, where the company takes a typical 30% revenue cut. The politician’s comments seem to have been inspired by the circulation of Spotify’s complaint.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/30/spotify-apple-music-competition/