Apple said Spotify wants to keep all the benefits of a free app on the App Store, without being free.
Spotify"wraps its financial motivations in misleading rhetoric" and its treatment of artists is a"damaging step backwards for the music industry."Apple has torn into Spotify in a response to the music streaming service's EU antitrust complaint., Apple laid out why it thinks Spotify wants to keep all the benefits of a free app on the App Store, without being free.
It comes after Spotify announced on Wednesday that it had filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with Europe's competition watchdog, arguing that the way it runs the App Store is anti-competitive. On Spotify's central complaint about the 30% tax on in-app purchases, Apple said the streaming service"left out" the fact that this levy declines to 15% after the first year. It added that only a"tiny fraction of their subscriptions fall under Apple's revenue-sharing model."
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