“Spotify says Apple is using its App Store approval process as ‘a weapon,'” John Paczkowski reports for Buzzfeed News.Apple says that claim is a load of BS.”
“In a letter sent to Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez on Friday, Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted the streaming music service’s June 26 allegations that Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify and its customers” by rejecting a recent update to Spotify’s iOS app,” Paczkowski reports. “‘We find it troubling that you are asking for exemptions to the rules we apply to all developers and are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service,’ Sewell wrote in a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News.”
“‘Ironically, it is now Spotify that wants things to be different by asking for preferential treatment from Apple,’ [Sewell writes]. “And as for Spotify’s suggestion that Apple is treading on dangerous, anticompetitive ground, well, Sewell doesn’t seem too concerned. ‘There is nothing in Apple’s conduct that ‘amounts to a violation of applicable antitrust laws.’ Far from it.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Desperate Spotify sees what’s coming: The Apple steamroller.
You know the Apple’s App Store rules, Spotify whiners. If you don’t like them, go pound sand.
As we wrote on Wednesday: These are Apple’s platforms, built from the ground up. Apple owns them. Hence, Apple can charge what they like for the use of their App Store infrastructure.
Anyone who doesn’t like it, including Spotify or… oh, we don’t know, the developers of the “Make Me Indian” app 😉 can go to other smartphone platforms, including one with 82.6% market share as measured by units shipped which — drumroll, please — neatly negates any and all imperiously vapid claims of Apple having a “monopoly” in smartphones.
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Elizabeth Warren accuses Apple of monopolistic-like actions; Spotify concurs – June 29, 2016
Apple Music turns one year old, already has half as many paying members as Spotify – June 29, 2016
Apple Music accumulating subscribers much more quickly than Spotify or Pandora – June 21, 2016
Spotify dims as Apple Music shines – April 27, 2016
Apple Music nabs 10 million subscribers in 6 months, which took Spotify 6 years – January 10, 2016