Spotify CEO blasts Apple's 'unfair' policies that forces a 'tax' on rival subscription services

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Spotify CEO blasts Apple’s 'unfair' policies that forces a 'tax' on rival subscription services.

Music streaming giant Spotify filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission's antitrust regulators, saying Apple Music has an"unfair advantage" over rivals.

"In recent years, Apple has introduced rules to the App Store that purposely limit choice and stifle innovation at the expense of the user experience — essentially acting as both a player and referee to deliberately disadvantage other app developers," Ek said in the post. According to Ek, Apple requires Spotify and other digital services to pay a 30 percent tax on purchases made through Apple's payment system. The fees makes it impossible for Spotify to keep its prices competitive with Apple Music, Spotify said. Ek added other apps on the App Store, including Uber and Deliveroo, are not subject to the"Apple tax."

Ek also accused Apple of blocking Spotify and other competitors from Apple's services such as Siri, Homepod and Apple Watch.

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PAID apps should be unbundled from 2 OSs w/~100% market share, compete for DOWNLOADING like others. 🔴it's an anticompetitive situation if someone operates an app store, SPOTS an '$ opportunity' to grab, creates a clone & PRE-INSTALLS it on its OS. Europe tech news eu27

Yet another example of how Apple has been poisoning its brand due to greed.

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