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Spotify made changes to their app that violate the App Store rules they've been playing along with for many many years. Specifically around App Store subscripti
by djrogers 10y ago
Spotify made changes to their app that violate the App Store rules they've been playing along with for many many years. Specifically around App Store subscriptions and advertising out-of-app purchase options inside your app.
I'm not defending or denigrating the App Store rules here, but make no mistake - this is a deliberate move on the part of Spotify to cause a controversy.
What's with iMusic in the title? That's not a product, it's not in the linked article, and it's not common shorthand for Apple Music.
-- edit: thanks for fixing the title
- lnanek2 10y agoYeah, amusingly, even Google Play has rules against third party payment processors. So Apple's behavior cracking down on directing app users to go pay somewhere else than the app store isn't even Apple specific.
- Etzos 10y agoActually... There's a specific exemption for this kind of thing[0] on Google Play. [0] https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/ Edit: Relevant section: "Developers . . . must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except [when] . . . payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g. songs that can be played on other music players)" Edit 2: To clarify, Spotify services are available outside of the app itself so I'm fairly certain they can avoid using Google Play's In-app Billing if they so desired. I have no idea if they actually do or not or if Google would actually have a problem with this or not.