> It blocked Spotify from using a podcasting API after it acquired 2x major podcasting companies Is this talking about the Apple Watch-Podcasting issue? Until

> It blocked Spotify from using a podcasting API after it acquired 2x major podcasting companies Is this talking about the Apple Watch-Podcasting issue? Until recently, podcast apps on the watch had issues saving where you are in an episode because they couldn't constantly run in the background; you could still play audio in the background without your app, you just couldn't watch the percentage played. Fitness tracking apps were allowed to run in the background forever, so some podcast apps told the API they were fitness apps to get around the restriction [0]. Apple later removed this loophole and created the APIs necessary for podcast apps to work on the watch [1]. [0] https://marco.org/2017/08/10/removed-send-to-watch#fn:pLK9h4axdwphack https://marco.org/2017/08/10/removed-send-to-watch#fn:pLK9h4... [1] https://marco.org/2018/09/17/overcast5 https://marco.org/2018/09/17/overcast5