Spotify tests Apple’s resolve with new pricing update in the EU

It is a post-Digital Markets Act (DMA) world, and Spotify continues to check what meaning for its iOS app. The music streamer announced that it submitted an replace for Apple’s approval that may permit Spotify to show “primary pricing and web site data” on its app in Europe and “the naked minimal outlined underneath the European Fee’s ruling in its music streaming case.”

Within the information, shared in a submit on X (previously Twitter), Spotify’s chief public affairs officer Dustee Jenkins additional acknowledged, “By charging builders to speak with shoppers via in-app hyperlinks, Apple continues to interrupt European regulation. It is previous time for the Fee to implement its resolution so that buyers can see actual, constructive advantages.”

Apple and Spotify have constantly butted heads over what the latter can and might’t do with its iOS app. Following the DMA going into impact, Spotify submitted an replace to Apple that may have allowed customers to buy plans immediately from the app, however Apple rejected it. Apple did so regardless that the European Union had simply hit it with an almost $2 billion fine for “blocking” different music apps. The EU can be investigating Apple, Meta and Google for self-preferencing and charging builders further charges. As for the way Apple will react to Spotify’s newest check, we’ll simply have to attend and see.

Replace, April 25 2024, 8:45AM ET: Apple has rejected Spotify’s replace. “Apple has as soon as once more defied the European Fee’s resolution, rejecting our replace for making an attempt to speak with clients about our costs except we pay Apple a brand new tax. Their disregard for shoppers and builders is matched solely by their disdain for the regulation,” a Spotify spokesperson advised Engadget.