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I'd love for someone to chime in with specifics, but I'm pretty sure it's both--depending on the feature. I remember reading a story where Spotify either bough
by pfranz 7y ago
I'd love for someone to chime in with specifics, but I'm pretty sure it's both--depending on the feature.
I remember reading a story where Spotify either bought or sued an app that allowed streaming to the Apple Watch (it may have been something specific like via LTE with no phone involved). Here's an article from June harping on Spotify not allowing offline playback on the Apple Watch [1]. Spotify launched https://www.timetoplayfair.com https://www.timetoplayfair.com and sued Apple in the EU because they can't work with Siri and Apple's Home pod.
On the other side, Netflix disables Airplay requesting you use the app on that device. I'm sure this is to enforce their per-device limits at different subscription tiers.
So it could be Apple not offering APIs, inaction on their part, or strategically not allowing that feature.
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/09/watchos-6-spotify/ https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/09/watchos-6-spotify/
- kitsunesoba 7y agoSpotify is hypocritical to say the least. They complain about Apple controlling their ecosystem too tightly and being too unfriendly to third parties while also refusing to provide a modern replacement for the deprecated and broken libspotify, removing playback capabilities from their other SDKs, breaking numerous Spotify-capable hardware devices, and shutting down third party devs trying to build on their platform. Spotify has no room to complain.
- GeekyBear 7y agoSpotify has previously complained that there was no API to transfer music to the local storage of the watch and play it back from there, but after the feature was added in last year's WatchOS update, they failed to add support for it. Now that cellular music streaming has been added in this year's WatchOS update, we'll have to wait and see if they will update their app to support that feature.