Spotify calls Apple “anticompetitive” upon denial of Spotify’s new iOS update
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- 05 Jul 2016
SoBAd67, 02 Jul 2016apple is stupid now!Apple is stupid way back then.
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- 03 Jul 2016
Hmm, even then!
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- 02 Jul 2016
apple is stupid now!
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- 02 Jul 2016
spotify dont even need apple ios to be better..its already the best music streaming service on android
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- 02 Jul 2016
However Apple announced a 15% charge for long period subscriptions.
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- 02 Jul 2016
Steve jobs would never do that.
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- 02 Jul 2016
AnonD-98584, 01 Jul 2016Apple Music is available in much more countries than Spotif... moreSpotify has recently started looking in the eastern markets. Indonesia is the first to get its services. Other major countries are soon to be added.
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- 02 Jul 2016
Mouri, 01 Jul 2016Well, Apple has the right to set all the rules.Too bad, Spo... moreApple cant do what they like. Anti comp rules will bring them down.
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- 02 Jul 2016
AnonD-521560, 01 Jul 2016I guess the problem that spotify has done is they advertise... moreTeach apple fairplay
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- 02 Jul 2016
AnonD-521560, 01 Jul 2016I guess the problem that spotify has done is they advertise... moreAs long as they're telling the truth, they can advertise whatever they want. In fact, I wish more companies would be more open about why there are extra charges on things - customers deserve to know why they pay more through the app, or why their product is cheaper, don't they? I'm not saying Spotify did this to be open - of course they did it for profit, but it's still a good thing that they've done. And let's not talk about putting down competitors in ads - Apple has a long history of putting down its competitors in their ads (and so do many companies). Remember Mac vs PC? No one complained about those, because most of what they said in the ads was true. Sure, they were bashing, but it was the truth. As long as you don't lie to or deceive people with ads, anything is fair game. That's fair. What's not fair is Apple penalizing them for an ad campaign that dares to tell people to use their site instead of an in app purchase, and (gasp!) tell them why.
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- 01 Jul 2016
to all spotify/ios users!: switch to Android! feel free, fell the difference!
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- 01 Jul 2016
Evil company acts like a leach clinging to anything that moves around it......
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- 01 Jul 2016
I've never heard of this. What about SlingTV, and Netflix?
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- 01 Jul 2016
Anonymous, 01 Jul 2016Spotify is the no.1 music streaming app and apple music is ... moreApple Music is available in much more countries than Spotify. Spotify is meant to be only for the west
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- 01 Jul 2016
AnonD-506570, 01 Jul 2016Hi Spotify, you cannot be the big boss in another men house Spotify is the no.1 music streaming app and apple music is no. 1 at taking advantage of its platform
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- 01 Jul 2016
I thought that apple pulled this same move on the NYTimes a LONG time ago, but in their case I thought NYTimes increased the price of their subscription to offset Apple's BS and Apple put in their TOS that App devs could not charge more for a service they offer outside of the Apps Store when they use Apple's payments/subscription systems.
So for example, if Spotify charges $9.99 for direct subscriptions then Apple would boot their app for setting the subscription price to $12.99. Basically Apple's TOS is "you MUST use our payment/subscription system and we're taking our cut no matter what you do and if you don't like it your app will be dropped".
I may have been misinformed about that TOS rule, but I swear I've seen that before.
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- 01 Jul 2016
Hi Spotify, you cannot be the big boss in another men house
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- 01 Jul 2016
No problem, they could just email the users stating that due to Apple trying to forbit them from charging less to customers, all new updates will be for Android and WP only. Maybe even strike a deal with Samsung for some discounts on new phones. This notice could be added to an update to their app in iOS as well.
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- 01 Jul 2016
That is the reason I have stopped buying anything from Apple.