Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers

Spotify isn’t demanding anything different: they’re demanding the same business model as Apple Music, and the same rules applied to them as everyone else on the platform… including Apple. But hey, we can ignore that fact by just saying that everyone has to follow the about this particular rule is that Apple, just a few years ago, forced developers to sell their subscriptions at the “same price or less” than when that service was made available elsewhere, even though they somehow need to swallow the 30% cut in addition, or face rejection: 

Apple previously required developers who sold content within its apps to do so “at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app” — that is, the Apple price couldn’t be higher than anywhere else. When Spotify submitted their Apple Watch app in September 2018, we reviewed and approved it with the same process and speed with which we would any other app.

Source: char.gd