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apple doesn’t have a competing tinder app. apple forced the 30% upon spotify, causing a price increase for spotify, but then apple released apple music at spoti
by nikofeyn 8y ago
apple doesn’t have a competing tinder app. apple forced the 30% upon spotify, causing a price increase for spotify, but then apple released apple music at spotify’s old price, undercutting them.
- votepaunchy 8y agoAgain, subscriptions are 15% after the first year. Spotify is acting quite disingenuously in their claim.
- nikofeyn 8y agothat isn't entirely clear to me. https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17764424/netflix-feature-bypass-apples-app-store-fees https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17764424/netflix-feature-... this article implies that no, it is indeed 30% for any new user, at least for netflix, but then that matches up with what spotify claims. spotify also claims that apple changes what policy applies to each company. it does mention the second year reduction, but that seems to be for other apps? i think it's at least clear that apple makes it a little unclear what they exactly do. i have heard from more than one app developer (from big companies) complain about apple's arbitrary app store processes.
- Svoka 8y agoApple has premium only streaming service. No surprise it's better than freemium Spotify. Reportedly from what I googled Spotify has about third of active users paying any subscription fee, while it's 100% for Apple.