{"id":118303,"date":"2024-08-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/apple-relents-and-approves-spotify-app-with-eu-pricing\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:00:00","slug":"apple-relents-and-approves-spotify-app-with-eu-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/apple-relents-and-approves-spotify-app-with-eu-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple relents and approves Spotify app with EU pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/9\/24152380\/spotify-apple-fight-european-union-dma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yearslong legal battle against Apple<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/2024-03-04\/the-european-commission-confirms-apples-anti-competitive-behavior-is-illegal-and-harms-consumers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an update to an old blog post<\/a>, Spotify says that EU iPhone users will now see things like promotional offers and pricing information for each subscription tier \u2014 including how much a plan costs once a promotion ends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">One thing that\u2019s missing is the ability to click a link to make those purchases from outside the Apple App Store. Spotify says it\u2019s opting into the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/music-streaming-services-entitlement-eea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music streaming services entitlement<\/a>\u201d that Apple introduced after being served a \u20ac1.84 billion (about $2 billion) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/3\/4\/24005938\/european-commission-antitrust-apple-investigation-anti-steering-rules-app-developers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU antitrust fine<\/a> in March for \u201cabusing its dominant position\u201d in music streaming, rather than accepting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/8\/9\/24216181\/apple-eu-app-store-services-fee-external-links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complicated new developer terms Apple outlined last week<\/a>. Unlike the entitlement, the latter would allow EU developers to link to external payment options with Apple taking a cut of off-platform sales. Spotify clearly doesn\u2019t want to do that, saying that Apple is demanding \u201cillegal and predatory taxes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component clear-both block\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--image-group-two-up my-40\">\n<div class=\"sm:flex sm:flex-row\">\n<div class=\"mb-20 w-full sm:mb-0 sm:mr-20 sm:w-1\/2\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-black [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63\"><em>Here\u2019s what iPhone users in the EU saw before&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><cite class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline not-italic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray\">Image: Spotify \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-20 w-full sm:mb-0 sm:w-1\/2\">\n<p><figcaption class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline text-gray-13 dark:text-gray-e9 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-black [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63\"><em>&#8230;and after, now with transparent pricing. Some options will also direct customers to purchase Premium subscriptions via Spotify\u2019s website.<\/em><\/figcaption><cite class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup inline not-italic text-gray-63 dark:text-gray-bd [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&amp;&gt;a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&amp;&gt;a]:shadow-underline-gray\">Image: Spotify<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/8\/14\/24220105\/spotify-iphone-app-pricing-information-eu-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify will begin showing in-app pricing information for iPhone users in the European Union starting today, following a yearslong legal battle against Apple. In an update to an old blog post, Spotify says that EU iPhone users will now see things like promotional offers and pricing information for each subscription tier \u2014 including how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}